presentation about bauhaus

1. THE BAUHAUS
1919-1933
Bauhaus:
Art as Life

2. WALTER ADOLPH GEORG GROPIUS
(MAY 18, 1883 – JULY 5, 1969)
Gropius was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus school
(founded in 1919). Bauhaus designers and their students believed
that design of any sort ought to be considered a high art as does
painting or sculpture.
Bauhaus school attempted to integrate the artist and the
craftsman, to bridge the gap between art and industry .
Bauhaus - an eagerness to experiment, openness, creativity, a close
link to industrial practice and inter -nationality.

3. CREATIVE MINDS
Gropius gathered some of the most respected creative minds
from across Europe. He thought that painters could bring new
insight into architecture, product and graphic design, and he
appointed teachers immersed in constructive, theoretical
practice.
Left to right: Josef Albers,
Hinnerk Scheper, Georg Muche,
László Moholy-Nagy, Herbert
Bayer, Joost Schmidt, Walter
Gropius, Marcel Breuer,
Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee,
Lyonel Feininger, Gunta Stölzl,
Oskar Schlemmer.

4. A SIMPLE APPROACH TO TYPOGRAPHY
Austrian American graphic designer Herbert Bayer (1900 -
1985) sought to create an internationally valid and legible
style of lettering with his “universal type ”. Bayer believed
that type must be an expression of our times, like cinema,
architecture and machines.

5. MODERN SENSE OF BEAUTY
The study of rational design in terms of technics and
materials should be only the first step in the development of a
new and modern sense of beauty.
We live in the 20th century, the student architect or designer
should be equipped for the modern world in its various
aspects.

6. BAUHAUS IDEOLOGY
 an environment of experimentation and synthesis
 mass production is reconcilable with individual
 artistic spirit
 honesty of construction, truth to materials
 form follows function
 simplified forms and clean lines
 qualities of light & airiness
 standardised production
 architecture adapted to our world

7. MOST POPULAR BAUHAUS ARTISTS AND
DESIGNERS
Johannes Itten (1888 – 1967)
Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher,
writer and theorist

8. MOST POPULAR BAUHAUS ARTISTS AND
DESIGNERS
Johannes Itten

9. MOST POPULAR BAUHAUS ARTISTS AND
DESIGNERS
Paul Klee (1879–1940)
German and a Swiss painter

10. MOST POPULAR BAUHAUS ARTISTS AND
DESIGNERS
Paul Klee

11. MOST POPULAR BAUHAUS ARTISTS AND
DESIGNERS
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Russian painter and art theorist

12. MOST POPULAR BAUHAUS ARTISTS AND
DESIGNERS
Wassily Kandinsky

13. MOST POPULAR BAUHAUS ARTISTS AND
DESIGNERS
Marcel Lajos Breuer (1901 - 1981)
Hungarian-born modernist, architect and furniture designer

14. MOST POPULAR BAUHAUS ARTISTS AND
DESIGNERS
Marcel Lajos Breuer

15. MOST POPULAR BAUHAUS ARTISTS AND
DESIGNERS
Laimonis Mierins (1929–2011)
Latvian artist, painter, art critic.
Well-known for his techni cal virtuosity and intuiti ve feeling of colors.

16. MOST POPULAR BAUHAUS ARTISTS AND
DESIGNERS
Laimonis Mierins

17. Summary
I LIKE BAUHAUSE, BECAUSE IT’S
MODERN, DOESNT’T LOOKS OLD!
THEIRE THINKING CAN CHANGE THE
THINKING OF THE WHOLE WORLD!
BAUHAUS CAN REFLEX THE LIFE IN THE
FUTURE!
BAUHAUS: ART OF THE FUTURE!
G. Fisere
Visual arts
2012