Bauhaus School

(noun)

A school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933.

Related Terms

  • Deutscher Werkbund
  • Louis Sullivan

Examples of Bauhaus School in the following topics:

  • German Bauhaus Art

    • The Bauhaus was a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts and was famous for its functionalist approach to design.
    • The Bauhaus was a school in Germany that operated from 1919 to 1933, combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the functional design approach it taught and publicized.
    • Nonetheless, the school was founded on the idea of "total" creativity, or "gesamtkunstwerk", in which all arts would be brought together.
    • Although the school was closed, the staff continued to spread its idealistic precepts as they left Germany and emigrated all over the world.
    • This approach to design education became a common feature of architectural and design school in many countries.
  • Modern Architecture: Form Follows Function

    • It would take the form of numerous movements, schools of design, and architectural styles, some in tension to one another, and often equally defying classification.
    • Notable among these are the philosophies of the Deutscher Werkbund and Bauhaus School .
  • The Development of Abstract Expressionism

    • Abstract expressionism is derived from the combination of the emotional intensity and self-denial of the German Expressionists with the anti-figurative aesthetic of the European abstract schools such as Futurism, the Bauhaus, and Synthetic Cubism.
  • What Does Art Do?

    • Entire schools of thought exist based on the concepts of design theory intended for the physical world.
  • Painting

    • By the early 1960s Minimalism emerged as an abstract movement in art (with roots in geometric abstraction via Malevich, the Bauhaus and Mondrian) which rejected the idea of relational, and subjective painting, the complexity of Abstract expressionist surfaces, and the emotional zeitgeist and polemics present in the arena of Action painting.
    • The movement is related to American Lyrical Abstraction of the '60s and '70s and the Bay Area Figurative School of the '50s and '60s.
  • Modern Architecture

    • It would take the form of numerous movements, schools of design, and architectural styles, some in tension with one another, and often equally defying such classification.
    • Wright was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture and developed the concept of the Usonian home, his unique vision for urban planning in the United States.
    • Wright's work includes original and innovative examples of many building types, including offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels, and museums.
    • Frank Lloyd Wright was a major influence on European architects, including both Walter Gropius (founder of the Bauhaus) and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, as well as on the whole of organic architecture.
  • Other Forms of Cubism

    • Constructivism had a great impact on modern art movements of the 20th century, influencing major trends such as Bauhaus and the De Stijl movement.
  • The Rise of Modernism

    • In painting, during the 1920s and the 1930s and the Great Depression, modernism is defined by Surrealism, late Cubism, Bauhaus, De Stijl, Dada, German Expressionism, and Modernist and masterful color painters like Henri Matisse as well as the abstractions of artists like Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky which characterized the European art scene.
  • Kano School Painting in the Edo Period

    • The Kanō school with its naturalistic style was the dominant style of the Edo period (1603 - 1868).
    • The Kanō school (狩) was the dominant style of painting during the Edo period.
    • Kanō Motonobu, a Japanese painter and member of the Kano School, is particularly known for expanding the school's repertoire through his bold artistic techniques and patronage.
    • Although the Kanō school was the most successful in Japan, the distinctions between its work and the work of other schools tended to diminish over time, as all schools worked in a range of styles and formats, making the attribution of unsigned works often unclear.
    • Tan'yū headed the Kajibashi branch of the Kanō school in Edo and painted in many castles, including the Imperial palace.
  • Soviet Constructivism

    • Constructivism had a considerable effect on modern art movements of the 20th century, influencing major trends such as Bauhaus and the De Stijl movement.
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