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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 Bauhaus , school of art and architecture in Germany. The Bauhaus revolutionized art training by combining the teaching...society, it could actually help to improve it. The Bauhaus was founded at Weimar in 1919 and headed by Walter Gropius...
László Moholy-Nagy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...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...
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...
Marcel Breuer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...building, and craftsmanship called the Bauhaus, in Weimar. Within four years, inspired...tube furniture. That same year the Bauhaus moved to Dessau, where Breuer was commissioned...chairs in the world. Breuer left the Bauhaus in 1928 to set up his own practice as...
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...
Oskar Schlemmer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the post of master of form at Walter Gropius' Bauhaus in Weimar. At the Bauhaus Schlemmer was first appointed as a master of the...Stuttgart in 1922, was a great success at the Bauhaus in 1923. With music composed by Paul Hindemith...
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...
Paul Klee
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...unique pictorial metaphor was established. Bauhaus Years In 1914 Klee helped to found the Neue...in Munich and was invited to teach at the Bauhaus in Weimar. He taught there and at the Bauhaus in Dessau until 1931; the Bauhaus years were...
Stefan Wolpe
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...benefitted much more from lectures at the Bauhaus, which he attended shortly after its...established methodology. It was also at the Bauhaus that he met his first wife, Ola Okuniewska...that he was attending lectures at the Bauhaus, Wolpe began associating with the Berlin...
Gropius, Walter
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...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...Athens (1960). http://www.bauhaus.de/english

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Bauhaus
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists Bauhaus A school of art and design founded by Walter...x2018;applied’ arts. The Bauhaus was created when Gropius was appointed...gave his new school the name Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar (Weimar State ‘Building...
Gropius, Georg Walter Adolf
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...under the new title of Das Staatliche Bauhaus Weimar (the Weimar State House of Building...industrialization and mass-production, the Bauhaus moved inexorably away from a craft-oriented...to one of industrial design. When the Bauhaus moved to Dessau, Gropius designed the...
Itten, Johannes
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...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...
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...designing the Museum of Modern Art's Bauhaus exhibition in 1938. (He continued to...
Albers, Josef
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...1919–20), and the Bauhaus at Weimar (1920–3...1923 to 1933 he was a teacher at the Bauhaus (in Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin...and furniture design. When the Bauhaus was closed by the Nazis in 1933...
Schlemmer, Oskar
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...draughtsman. From 1920 to 1929 he taught at the Bauhaus , in the metalwork, sculpture, and stage...Hindemith, which was performed at the Bauhaus in 1923. In the catalogue of the exhibition...for the educational activities of the Bauhaus'. His ideas on teaching are expressed...
Klee, Paul
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...Gropius to invite him to teach at the Bauhaus ; he moved to Weimar to take up the post...of flowers on his house.) In 1925 the Bauhaus published Klee's Pedagogisches Skizzenbuch...the universe.’ During his Bauhaus days Klee was particularly close to another...
Moholy-Nagy, László
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...Gallery. From 1923 to 1928 he taught at the Bauhaus , taking over from Itten the running of the preliminary course. Frank Whitford ( Bauhaus , 1984) emphasizes the difference in...also co-editor, with Gropius , of the Bauhaus publications. The substance of his teaching...
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 ‘...in 1957. During these years he introduced Bauhaus teaching methods and he wrote The Bauhaus: An Introductory Survey (1963). The paintings...
Kandinsky, Wassily
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...offer to take up a teaching post at the Bauhaus , where he remained until it was closed...manner that ran counter to the typical Bauhaus concern with geometrical purity ( Swinging...and the more geometrical manner of his Bauhaus period, but there was also a new element...

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architecture
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...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...

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Bauhaus Software Announces Mirage Studio Pro; New Product Lineup and Pricing Available for Leading 2D Animation and Effects System.
Business Wire; 3/7/2006; 700+ words ; SAN ANTONIO -- Bauhaus Software Inc. today announced the immediate...line. Mirage Studio Pro integrates both Bauhaus' Animator's Toolbar, and the recently...workflow. Board-O-Matic(TM) 2 is Bauhaus' powerful new fully digital storyboarding...
Bauhaus anniversary show draws many visitors
News Wire article from: AP Online; 7/29/2009; 700+ words ; ...Ninety years after the founding of the Bauhaus school, a new exhibition in Berlin brings...extend far beyond the familiar images of Bauhaus. There are little-known paper cuttings by Bauhaus students, expressionist paintings by their...
Bauhaus Announces New Fully Digital Storyboarding System; New Boardomatic(TM) v2 Provides Powerful Tools for Automated Storyboard Creation.
Business Wire; 2/23/2006; 700+ words ; SAN ANTONIO -- Bauhaus Software, a leading provider of 2D animation...fully digital storyboarding system for Bauhaus Mirage, the company's award-winning...production," said Paul Ford, President of Bauhaus. "Boardomatic 2's patent-pending...
Bauhaus School of Architecture
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 10/20/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...in Desau (ph), a new program at the Bauhaus, the school where modern architecture...it was shut down by the Nazis in 1933, Bauhaus designers came to the U.S. where their...SOUNDBITE OF WALTER FUNKAT (PH), FORMER BAUHAUS STUDENT, SPEAKING IN GERMAN SUSAN STAMBERG...
Bauhaus Announces Formation of New Mirage Development Team; Leading 2D Animation Software Firm Expands In-House Development Effort.
Business Wire; 2/1/2006; 660 words ; SAN ANTONIO -- Bauhaus Software, a leading provider of 2D animation...development team for the next version of Bauhaus Mirage, the company's award-winning...product. Responding to requests from key Bauhaus customers, the company will focus its...
The Bauhaus story is broader, more controversial, and both funny and tragic.(Marginalia)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 9/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; Exhibition/Modell Bauhaus Until 4 October 2009, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany www.modell-bauhaus.de In 1968, Stuttgart, then in West...curated an exhibition called 50 Years of Bauhaus. This year, 10 years short of its...
Bauhaus 1919-1933.
Magazine article from: Art Monthly; 2/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; Bauhaus 1919-1933 Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art November...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 contemporary art...
Bauhaus in concert - goth rock at its best
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 10/27/2005; ; 700+ words ; BELA LUGOSI is still dead. Bauhaus, however, appears very much alive. Sure, there's that little matter that Bauhaus -- the group that gave the world the...details, details. The proof of Bauhaus' rebirth was on full display on Tuesday...
Bauhaus & Sony Media Software Announce That Mirage Studio is Now Available Through Sony Media Software Catalog and Web Store; Co-Marketing Relationship Will Address Swelling Market Demand for Advanced Content Creation and Animation Tools.
Business Wire; 11/30/2005; 700+ words ; SAN ANTONIO & MADISON, Wis. -- Bauhaus Software Inc.: --Bauhaus Mirage Studio, the All-In-One Solution for...Catalog and On-Line Store Sony Media Software and Bauhaus Software today announced a new co-marketing relationship...
Bauhaus Announces Strategic Investment from the State of Texas; Leading 2D Animation Software Firm Plans for Expansion and Growth.
Business Wire; 7/24/2006; 700+ words ; SAN ANTONIO -- Bauhaus Software, a leading provider of 2D animation...This funding will be used to expand Bauhaus' development team, invest in more research...new products, and augment marketing. Bauhaus is also focused on furthering relationships...