History of Design: Bauhaus Screening

Chicago, epitome of the modern city, the face of modern man.
Most of the 20^thcentury face, first fashioned in the old world in a revolutionary school of architecture and design in Germany called the Bauhaus.
Bauhaus was the focal point of many avant-garde ideas and many revolutionary ideas in the 1920s.
No other art school in Germany like it.
Greatest design institution of the 20^th century.
Born out of catastrophe.
Idea of Walter Gropious.
1919, manifesto of published ideas.
School was supported by public funds.
Gerhard Marcks
On the Bauhaus staff were some of the most original painters in the world.
First time the focus had been put on the individual student.
A great stress was laid on texture.
Invented the modern art student.
Marianne Brandt, member of the metal workshop.
Most women were placed in the weaving, book binding, and pottery workshops.
Theater was central to Bauhaus teaching.
Albers was the first student to graduate from Bauhaus and then teach there.
1923, Bauhaus went public.
The exhibition of 1923, made to show what was being done at the Bauhaus.
National Socialism first became very strong in Thuringia, and artist matters were used as a pawn in the hands of the powerful, which was a clash of the parties.
When the National Socialist Party grew stronger in Weimar, support was lost for the Bauhaus, and it was publicly declared closed.
1925, it reopened in Dessau, which was more liberal than Weimar.
Began reproducing for the industrial manufacturer and mass production.
Typography made modern statements.
Last home of the Bauhaus was in Berlin.
1933, police closed the building and took some of the students away.
By the beginning of 1933, Nazis were strong in Germany.
The Bauhaus’ 14 year life had mirrored Germany itself.
Teachers and students spread out to the free world, taking their ideas and convictions with them.