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Bauhaus
Bauhaus , school of art and architecture in Germany. The Bauhaus revolutionized art training by combining the teaching of the pure arts with the study of crafts. Philosophically, the school was built on the idea that design did not merely reflect society, it could actually help to improve it. The Ba... Read more
Theo van Doesburg
Theo van Doesburg , 1883-1931, Dutch painter, teacher, and writer. Together with Mondrian he founded the magazine De Stijl and successfully proselytized in Europe for the new aesthetic of abstraction, simplicity, clarity, and harmony. He influenced Gropius and taught at the Bauhaus and in Berlin f... Read more
Hannes Meyer
Hannes Meyer , 1889-1954, Swiss architect. Meyer was a lecturer and studio master at the Bauhaus in Dessau. He succeeded Gropius as its director (1928-30). Meyer is noted for his rejection of the concept of individual design in favor of designs produced by the collaboration of architects. He worke... Read more
Oskar Schlemmer
Oskar Schlemmer , 1888-1943, German painter and stage designer. Known for his mechanical, geometricized forms, Schlemmer taught painting, sculpture, and stage design at the Bauhaus (1920-29). He created the Triadic Ballet to Hindemith's music. In sculpture he experimented with plastic relief in ... Read more
László Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy , 1895-1946, Hungarian painter, designer, and experimental photographer. He turned to art after studying law. While living in Berlin he was one of the founders of constructivism , experimenting with photograms and translucent materials. As a professor in the newly o... Read more
functionalism
functionalism in art and architecture, an aesthetic doctrine developed in the early 20th cent. out of Louis Henry Sullivan's aphorism that form ever follows function. Functionalist architects and artists design utilitarian structures in which the interior program dictates the outward form, without ... Read more
International style
International style in architecture, the phase of the modern movement that emerged in Europe and the United States during the 1920s. The term was first used by Philip Johnson in connection with a 1932 architectural exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Architects working in ... Read more
suprematism
suprematism Russian art movement founded (1913) by Casimir Malevich in Moscow, parallel to constructivism . Malevich drew Aleksandr Rodchenko and El Lissitzky to his revolutionary, nonobjective art. In Malevich's words, suprematism sought "to liberate art from the ballast of the representati... Read more
Josef Albers
Josef Albers , 1888-1976, German-American painter, printmaker, designer, and teacher, b. Bottrop, Germany. After working at the Bauhaus (1920-33), Albers and his wife, the textile designer and weaver Anni Albers, emigrated to the United States when Hitler came to power. Albers taught throughout th... Read more
Naum Gabo
Naum Gabo , 1890-1977, Russian sculptor, architect, theorist, and teacher, brother of Antoine Pevsner . Gabo lived in Munich and Norway until the end of the revolution, when he returned to Russia. With Pevsner he wrote the Realist Manifesto (1920), which proposed that new concepts of time and spa... Read more

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Bauhaus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...of art and architecture in Germany. The Bauhaus revolutionized art training by combining...could actually help to improve it. The Bauhaus was founded at Weimar in 1919 and headed...problems of mechanical mass production. Bauhaus style was characterized by economy of... Read more
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Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...1895-1946) was one of the leading figures in the Bauhaus and was highly instrumental in bringing its...materials made him a very suitable member of the Bauhaus, where he went to teach in 1923. The Bauhaus had been founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius... Read more
Walter Gropius
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...1883-1969) was director of the famed Bauhaus in Germany from 1919 to 1928 and occupied...Tribune Tower competition of 1922. The Bauhaus During the war Gropius was invited to...combined the two schools into the Staatliches Bauhaus (State Building House) in 1919. The aim... Read more
Lyonel Feininger
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...one of the leading artists of the German Bauhaus. Lyonel Feininger was born on July 17...architect Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus in Weimar, asked Feininger to teach painting...even more into the foreground during his Bauhaus period. The other main theme in the artist... Read more
Gropius, Walter
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...1969) German-US architect, founder of the Bauhaus (1919–28). Gropius transformed the Weimar School of Art into the Bauhaus, which relocated to his newly designed buildings...the US Embassy, Athens (1960). http://www.bauhaus.de/english Read more
Marcel Breuer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...building, and craftsmanship called the Bauhaus, in Weimar. Within four years, inspired...steel-tube furniture. That same year the Bauhaus moved to Dessau, where Breuer was commissioned...commercial chairs in the world. Breuer left the Bauhaus in 1928 to set up his own practice as... Read more
Moholy-Nagy, László
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...influential founders of constructivism . Moholy-Nagy taught at the Bauhaus (1923–28), before working in Berlin as a stage designer...emigrated to the USA and became director of the short-lived New Bauhaus. http://www.geh.org/photographers.html; http://www.getty.edu Read more
Josef Albers
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...1920 Albers became a student at the Bauhaus in Weimar, founded by Walter Gropius, and remained as a teacher when the Bauhaus was relocated first to Dessau and then to Berlin. During his years at the Bauhaus, both as an artist and as a teacher... Read more
László Moholy-Nagy
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...and translucent materials. As a professor in the newly opened Bauhaus from 1923 to 1928, Moholy-Nagy was coeditor with Walter Gropius...typographer and designer of stage sets. In 1937 he directed the Bauhaus School of Design in Chicago until it failed (1938). Thereafter... Read more
Hannes Meyer
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition , 1889-1954, Swiss architect. Meyer was a lecturer and studio master at the Bauhaus in Dessau. He succeeded Gropius as its director (1928-30). Meyer is noted for his rejection of the concept of individual design... Read more

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Bauhaus
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Bauhaus. A school of art and design founded by Walter Gropius in...x2018;fine’ from ‘applied’ arts. The Bauhaus was created when Gropius was appointed head of two art...Fine Arts). He gave his new school the name Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar (Weimar State ‘Building ... Read more
Hirschfeld-Mack, Ludwig
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...born in Frankfurt. While a student at the Bauhaus (1919–25) he created ‘Colour...retirement in 1957. During these years he introduced Bauhaus teaching methods and he wrote The Bauhaus: An Introductory Survey (1963). The paintings... Read more
Itten, Johannes
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...then from 1919 to 1923 he taught at the Bauhaus , where he was in charge of the ‘...for all students. In 1923 he left the Bauhaus and opened another school of his own in...especially for his preliminary course at the Bauhaus, which had a great influence on instruction... Read more
Bayer, Herbert
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...mural painting under Kandinsky at the Bauhaus in Weimar. His work of this time included...1925 to 1928 he taught typography at the Bauhaus (which had now moved to Dessau) and from...including designing the Museum of Modern Art's Bauhaus exhibition in 1938. (He continued to be... Read more
Albers, Josef
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...and taught (1923–33) at the Bauhaus , where his activities embraced stained...typography, and furniture design. When the Bauhaus closed in 1933 he emigrated to the USA. He was one of the first of the Bauhaus teachers to move there and one of the... Read more
Schlemmer, Oskar
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...writer on art. From 1920 to 1929 he taught at the Bauhaus , in the metalwork, sculpture, and stage-design...by Paul Hindemith, which was performed at the Bauhaus in 1923. After leaving the Bauhaus he taught in Breslau and Berlin, but in 1933... Read more
Bill, Max
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Bill, Max (1908–94). Swiss architect who trained at the Dessau Bauhaus (1927–9) and designed many timber houses in the 1940s, but who also revived the Bauhaus programme at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (High School for Construction... Read more
Moholy-Nagy, László
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...Hungarian-born American artist, theorist, and teacher. An important figure in the Bauhaus and supporter of Gropius , he not only was one of the editors of Bauhaus publications, but wrote two of them himself, including the influential Von Material... Read more
Gropius, Walter
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...became an American citizen in 1944. In 1919 he founded the Bauhaus , of which he was director until 1928, when he resigned to...modernist trends in all the visual arts was enormous. At the Bauhaus he brought together an unprecedented collection of outstanding... Read more
Meyer, Hannes
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Meyer, Hannes. See Bauhaus . Read more

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architecture
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...construction, organization, layout, design, build, anatomy, makeup; informal setup. Architectural Styles Art Deco Art Nouveau baroque Bauhaus beaux-arts brutalist Byzantine Carolingian Château Churrigueresque cinquecento classical colonial Corinthian Decorated... Read more

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Bauhaus 1919-1933.
Magazine article from: Art Monthly; 2/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; Bauhaus 1919-1933 Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art November 23 to February 17 Some signs of Middlesbrough...international convention, are self-effacingly austere. This is a brave setting for an ambitious show, 'Bauhaus 1919-1933', and in fact for a kind of Bauhaus fest, also including an exhibition of ... Read more
The other Bauhaus. (exhibition at the Bauhaus-Archiv Museum in Berlin)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 2/1/1997; ; 592 words ; The Bauhaus story continues to fascinate 60 years after the school's dissolution. The Bauhaus started as a state school in Weimar but after...Gropius unsuccessfully fought for a private Bauhaus school to remain in Weimar but he did at least... Read more
The once and future Bauhaus. (two exhibitions of Bauhaus art in Weimar and Dessau, Germany)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 12/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...century's great modernist experiments - the Bauhaus school of art, architecture and design...This path leads from Weimar, where the Bauhaus was founded in 1919, to the industrial...late-Expressionist artistic aspirations, Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius succeeded in merging... Read more
Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to the Cold War.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: California Bookwatch; 12/1/2006; 141 words ; Bauhaus Culture Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Editor University of...Minneapolis MN 55401 0816646880 $25.00 www.upress.umn.edu The Bauhaus was the site of one of the most influential experiments...arts academies. Today modern art still holds elements of Bauhaus tradition and thus BAUHAUS CULTURE: FROM ... Read more
Brandt conscious.(Tempo, Tempo: The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 9/1/2006; ; 386 words ; TEMPO, TEMPO! THE BAUHAUS PHOTOMONTAGES OF MARIANNE BRANDT By Elizabeth...Jovis. 2005. [pounds sterling]19.99 Bauhaus students saw themselves as radical and...as well as light fittings for the new Bauhaus building at Dessau. But almost in private... Read more
Learning through color.(Josef Albers: To Open Eyes - The Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale; Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today; Colour)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 5/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; Josef Albers: To Open Eyes; The Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale, by...monograph about Albers as a teacher at the Bauhaus and beyond, Frederick Horowitz notes that...his higher-education career teaching the Bauhaus's first-year Vorkurs (replacing Johannes... Read more
Bauhaus origins.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 1/1/2006; ; 377 words ; BEFORE THE BAUHAUS By John V. Maciuika. Cambridge: Cambridge...protest, underlining its claim that the Bauhaus did not spring independently into existence...schools that took place across Germany. Many Bauhaus 'innovations' had already occurred elsewhere... Read more
Bauhaus culture; from Weimar to the Cold War.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2006; 167 words ; 9780816646883 Bauhaus culture; from Weimar to the Cold War...genesis, evolution and influence of the Bauhaus (1919-1933) against the political landscapes...commerce. They discuss how individual Bauhausers tried to salvage its ideals under the... Read more
How now, Bauhaus. (art movement)
Magazine article from: Interview; 6/1/1994; ; 364 words ; ...THAT'S BUILDING IN THE '90S. WE FOUND THE BAUHAUS AURA AT A FINE ARTS SCHOOL IN CALIFORNIA...HOW THEY DRESS The true beauty of the Bauhaus movement--beyond its bold architectural...Wassily Kandinsky, the students of the Bauhaus jumped on the opportunity to rethink buildings... Read more
Harvard hothouse.(Inventing American Modernism: Joseph Hudnut, Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus Legacy at Harvard)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 11/1/2007; ; 599 words ; ...JOSEPH HUDNUT, WALTER GROPIUS AND THE BAUHAUS LEGACY AT HARVARD By Jill Pearlman. Charlottesville...short period at the Weimar then Dessau Bauhaus. Gropius also delivered the inaugural...attempt to turn Harvard into an American Bauhaus, appears to have run out of new ideas... Read more