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Bauhaus
German school of design
Also known as: Staatliches Bauhaus
Bauhaus school by Walter Gropius
Category:
Arts & Culture
- In full:
- Staatliches Bauhaus
- Date:
- 1919 - 1933
- Areas Of Involvement:
- architecture
- design
- Notable Alumni:
- Marianne Brandt
- Marcel Breuer
- Anni Albers
- Josef Albers
- Related People:
- Paul Klee
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Walter Gropius
- Oskar Schlemmer
- Marianne Brandt
Top Questions
What was the Bauhaus?
What does “Bauhaus” mean?
What kind of art did the Bauhaus create?
Who founded the Bauhaus?
How has the Bauhaus influenced modern art and design?
Bauhaus, school of design, architecture, and applied arts that existed in Germany from 1919 to 1933. It was based in Weimar until 1925, Dessau through 1932, and Berlin in its final months. The Bauhaus was founded by the architect Walter Gropius, who combined two schools, the Weimar Academy of Arts and the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts, into what he called the Bauhaus, or “house of building,” a name derived by inverting the German word Hausbau, “building of a house.” Gropius’s “house of building” included the teaching of various crafts, which he saw as allied to architecture, the matrix ...(100 of 819 words)