Bauhaus

Bauhaus

The Bauhaus was founded in 1919. The Bauhaus gave us a better and easier life by producing better products such as the kettle and a comfortable chair. It had a combination of both education and design. Paul Klee, Vasily Kandinsky and Josef Albers were some of the artists of the Bauhaus.

It has over 400 works by 100 teachers that include architecture, ceramics, costume design, furniture, graphic design, industrial design, painting, photography, sculpture and textiles.

The Bauhaus movement was considered a radical step towards modernism. The Bauhaus was in 3 different locations, Weimer-Germany from 1919-1925, Dessau-Germany from 1925-1932  and Berlin-Germany from 1932-1933. It was required from the students that first they should finish a certain course before they could specialize into the workshops.

The Bauhaus chose some teachers to not only teach but to be as an inspiration and motivation.

Kandinsky used a lot of geometric shapes in his paintings, he used squares, circles, triangles and zigzags to show his creativity. His most important piece was the ''Yellow Red Blue'' as he used primary colours to show the relationship between them.





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