Bauhaus

Bauhaus

1919-1933

starts in Weimar

first public exhibition 1923

1924 Letter of Resignation / persecuted

1925-1932 Dessau

1928 Groupius replaced by Meyer

1930 Meyer replaced by van der Rohe

1932-1933 Berlin

Area economic depressed put art school

Walter Groupius

Cathedral

(john Ruskin mentioned it)

Groupius uses cathedral as three spires 

painting 

sculpture 

architecture

allegory - a new social unity

Gerhard Marks - Sculpture / Pottery

Lyonel Feringer - Painting

Johannes Itten - Preliminary Courses

Foundation class - study based on contrast

Analysis of old masters

Found object structures

Analyze forms

Something that is hard should CONTRAST something that is soft

Itten leaves 1923 

Bauhas leaves craftsmanship medievalism moves towards design thinking

Bahaus Poster

art and technology

Cubism Deschilt Supremitsm

1923 first exhibition of Bauhaus

Itten replaced by Laszlo Moholy Nagy

scientist, photo montage, resin

type-o-photo

replacing painting

new visual language for new age

(Luscian Benard did something similar - plachenst...)

photo-plastiques

new pictoral expression

1926 building glass curtain windows 

modern building

universal alphabet

doing away with capitols

did away with serifs

experimenting with raging to the right

contrast and hierarchy

bars rules squares and open compositions on implied grids

dominant vertical dominant horizon

"less is more" - Ludwig van der Rohe

Learned about the Bauhaus today...

The designs don't look that dated compared to the other stuff we have seen. Its a shame the Nazis shut them down. Boo Nazis. I prefer the Bauhaus approach to design than Art Nouveau.

It was interesting to see that they not only did graphic design but also dance, sculpture, furniture, pots. I think it continues on the ideas of William Morris, that anything can be designed. Today artists specialize in something so specific that we miss learning about other crafts. It benefits knowing outside our field because we often must collaborate with each other. Walter Groupius's idea of the cathedral also goes back to what we learned earlier about Morris. I guess the main lesson I will take away from History of Graphic Design is that we all build upon what others did before us.