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Bauhaus

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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 Bauhaus was founded at Weimar in 1919 and headed by Walter Gropius , with a faculty that included Paul Klee , Lyonel Feininger , Wassily Kandinsky , László Moholy-Nagy , and Marcel Breuer . The teaching plan insisted on functional craftsmanship in every field, with a concentration... Read more
Bauhaus
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 House’... Read more
Bauhaus
Bauhaus. German school of design (literally Building House), the...Crafts movement, were merged to become the Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar (State Building House, Weimar). Walter Gropius had...derived from notions promoted by the Deutscher Werkbund. The Bauhaus became a centre for Modernist theorizing, ... Read more

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