Bauhaus

(proper noun)

A style in Modernist architecture and modern design, popularized at the "Staatliches Bauhaus" originally in Weimar, Germany.

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Examples of Bauhaus in the following topics:

  • German Bauhaus Art

    • The Bauhaus was a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts and was famous for its functionalist approach to design.
    • Thus the Bauhaus style was marked by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between function and overall design.
    • The influence of the Bauhaus on design education was significant.
    • One of the main objectives of the Bauhaus was to unify art, craft, and technology, and this approach was incorporated into the curriculum of the Bauhaus.
    • Describe Bauhaus design principles and their impact on modern art, architecture, and design

  • What Does Art Do?

  • Modern Architecture: Form Follows Function

    • Notable among these are the philosophies of the Deutscher Werkbund and Bauhaus School .

  • Other Forms of Cubism

    • Constructivism had a great impact on modern art movements of the 20th century, influencing major trends such as Bauhaus and the De Stijl movement.

  • Painting

    • By the early 1960s Minimalism emerged as an abstract movement in art (with roots in geometric abstraction via Malevich, the Bauhaus and Mondrian) which rejected the idea of relational, and subjective painting, the complexity of Abstract expressionist surfaces, and the emotional zeitgeist and polemics present in the arena of Action painting.

  • The Development of Abstract Expressionism

    • Abstract expressionism is derived from the combination of the emotional intensity and self-denial of the German Expressionists with the anti-figurative aesthetic of the European abstract schools such as Futurism, the Bauhaus, and Synthetic Cubism.

  • Soviet Constructivism

    • Constructivism had a considerable effect on modern art movements of the 20th century, influencing major trends such as Bauhaus and the De Stijl movement.

  • Modern Architecture

    • Frank Lloyd Wright was a major influence on European architects, including both Walter Gropius (founder of the Bauhaus) and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, as well as on the whole of organic architecture.