By Jessne Chua Jiah Yin (Group 1) 2014050092

Mr. George Gray

BAUHAUS

•Art school in Germany

•Operated from 1919 to 1933

•Founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar

•Idea of creating a "total" work of art in which all arts and including architecture

•One of the most influential current in modern design

•existed in three German cities : Weimar (1919 to 1925)

Dessau (1925 to1932)

Berlin (1932 to 1933)

Walter Gropius (May18, 1883 – July5, 1969)

•Architect and educator

•Director of the Bauhaus

(1919- 1928)

•Founder of the Bauhaus

School

Hannes Meyer (November18, 1889 –

July19, 1954)

•Switzerland architect

•Second director of

Bauhaus in Deesau

Ludwig Mies

van der Rohe(March27, 1886 – August17,

1969)

•German architect

•one of the pioneering

masters of modern

architecture.

HISTORY OF THE BAUHAUS

- WEIMAR

•Designed by Henry van de Velde

•Designated as a UNESCO World

Heritage Site in 1996).

•Henry van de Velde (3 April

1863 – 15 October 1957)

• Belgian painter, architect

and interior designer

• 1860, Grand Duke Carl Alexander founded the Grand Ducal

Saxon Art School.

• Students were instructed in a variety of artistic subjects,

including landscape, historical, portrait and animal painting,

and sculpting.

• 1905, the Art School merged with the Weimar Sculpture

School.

• The school was raised to college status in 1910 and was

renamed the Grand Ducal Saxon College of Fine Arts.

• Bauhaus Weimar was also strongly influenced by the Grand

Ducal Saxon School of Arts and Crafts which trained artisans

in the handicrafts between 1907 and 1915.

• Both schools issued certificates of participation and conferred

diplomas.

HISTORY OF THE BAUHAUS

- DESSAU

•return to the futuristic Gropius of 1914 that had more in common with

the International style

•approached the Dutch architect Mart Stam to run the newly founded architecture

program

•Gropius turned to colleague in the ABC group, Hannes Meyer.

•Bauhaus its two most significant building commissions

•Mayer no patience with the aesthetic program, he didn't want the school to become

a tool of left-wing party politics.

•Dessau mayor Fritz Hesse fired him in the summer of 1930

HISTORY OF THE BAUHAUS

- BERLIN

•1932, Mies rented a derelict factory in Berlin to use as the new Bauhaus

with his own money.

•1933, the Gestapo closed down the Berlin school.

•Mies speaking to the head of the Gestapo, who agreed to allow the school

to re-open.

•Mies decided to emigrate to the United States for the directorship of the

School of Architecture

•1935, many of the bridges and service stations were among those

submitting designs was Mies van der Rohe

Bauhaus Poster

Wasilly Chair•Designed in 1925-1926

•by Marcel Breuer

Marcel Breuer (May21, 1902

– July1, 1981)

BAUHAUS FURNITURE

Barcelona Chair•Designed in 1929

•by future Bauhaus head

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and

partner Lily Reich

Lily Reich

(June16, 1885 –

December14,

1947)

Ludwig Mies

van der Rohe

(March27, 1886 – August17, 1969)

Bauhaus Chess Set•Designed in 1922

•By Josef Hartwig

•design of each also indicates the

type of movement it is capable of.

Josef Hartwig (born on

1880 died on 1956)

Bauhaus Nesting

Tables•Designed in 1926

•By Josef Albers

• colors favored by the Bauhaus:

yellow, red, and blue.

Josef Albers (March 19,

1888 – March 25, 1976)

Bauhaus Cradle•By Peter Keler

•emerged in the early days of the

German design school

•simplicity magazine holderProfessor Peter Keler

(born on 1898 died on

1982)

BAUHAUS TYPOGRAPHY

BAUHAUS ART

Wassily Kandinsky (16December,

1866 – 13December 1944)

•Russian painter and art theorist

Lyonel Feininger (July

17, 1871 – January 13,

1956)

• German-American

painter

•was born and grew up in

New York City

•Traveling to German at

16 to study and perfect

his art.

MY CONCLUSION

I like Bauhaus because it’s design are

very interesting and very modern even

though is the olden days. The furniture

also match with all different houses

design.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus#Berlin

• http://gizmodo.com/5918142/8-beautiful-things-

from-bauhaus-the-single-most-influential-school-of-

design