Bauhaus

:Alternate use: There is also a British rock band named Bauhaus.

Impact

The Bauhaus had a major impact on art and architecture trends in western Europe and the United States as well as in Tel Aviv in the decades following its demise, as many of the artists involved fled or were exiled by the Nazi regime.

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Architecture - Europe - United States - Tel Aviv

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Gropius, Breuer, and Moholy-Nagy re-assembled in England during the mid 1930s to live and work in the Isokon project before the war caught up to them. In the late 1930s Mies van der Rohe re-settled in Chicago and became one of the pre-eminent architects in the world;. Moholy-Nagy also went to Chicago and founded the New Bauhaus school under the sponsorship of industrialist and philanthropist Walter Paepcke. Herbert Bayer, also sponsored by Paepcke, moved to Aspen, Colorado in support of Paepcke's Aspen projects.

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Isokon - New Bauhaus - Walter Paepcke - Aspen, Colorado

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Both Gropius and Breuer went to teach at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and worked together before their professional split in 1941. The Harvard School was enormously influential in the last 1940s and early 1950s, producing such students as Philip Johnson, I.M. Pei, Lawrence Halprin and Paul Rudolph, among many others.

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Harvard Graduate School of Design - Philip Johnson - I.M. Pei - Lawrence Halprin - Paul Rudolph

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One of the main objectives of the Bauhaus was to unify art, craft, and technology. The machine was considered a positive element, and therefore industrial and product design were important components. Vorkurs ("initial course") was taught; this is the modern day Basic Design course that has become one of the key foundational courses offered in architectural schools all over the world. There was no teaching of history in the school because everything was supposed to be designed and created according to first principles rather than by following precedent.

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One of the most important contributions of the Bauhaus is in the field of furniture design. The world famous and ubiquitous Cantilever chair by Dutch designer Mart Stam, using the tensile properties of steel, and the Wassily Chair designed by Marcel Breuer are two examples.

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Furniture design - Cantilever chair - Mart Stam - Wassily Chair - Marcel Breuer

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The physical plant at Dessau survived the War and was operated as a design school with some architectural facilities by the Communist German Democratic Republic. included live stage productions in the Bauhaus theater, IIRC under the name of Bauhausbühne ("Baushaus Stage"). After German reunification, a reorganized school continued in the same building, with no essential continuity with the Bauhaus under Gropius in the early 1920s http://www.bauhaus-dessau.de/en/index.asp.

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German Democratic Republic - German reunification

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In 1999 Bauhaus-Dessau College started to organize postgraduate programs with participants from all over the world. This effort has been supported by the Bauhaus-Dessau Foundation which was founded in 1994 as a public institution.

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American art schools have also rediscovered the Bauhaus school. The Master Craftsman Program at Florida State University bases its artistic philosophy on Bauhaus theory and practice.

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Master Craftsman Program - Florida State University

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Some other outstanding artists of the times were lecturers at the Bauhaus:

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• Anni Albers
• Josef Albers
• Marianne Brandt
• Marcel Breuer
• Lyonel Feininger
• Ludwig Hilberseimer
• Johannes Itten
• Wassily Kandinsky
• Paul Klee
• Gerhard Marcks
• László Moholy-Nagy
• Georg Muche
• Hinnerk Scheper
• Oskar Schlemmer
• Joost Schmidt
• Lothar Schreyer
• Gunda Stölzl