The architecture of the Bauhaus

Hardly any other architecture has influenced our country as visibly as the architecture that emerged from the Bauhaus art school. Because that was the Bauhaus : an art school that began as an educational center for art and arts and crafts, architecture and design.

In particular, this holistic approach was responsible for the fact that the term Bauhaus became synonymous with modernity in architecture and design or its beginnings.

The intellectual original fathers

The original spiritual father of the Bauhaus was also an artist architect. Henry van de Velde is considered one of the most diverse artists of the Art Nouveau, who, according to his beginnings, turned to the painter of architecture and the arts and crafts. He already tackled the fundamental renewal of applied art in the Bauhaus's predecessor.

From the union of the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar with the Grand Ducal Saxon Art Ceremony Weimar founded by Henry van de Velde, the Bauhaus was created in 1919: Walter Gropius, , was called "State Bauhaus in Weimar" .

Gropius was an industrial designer and architect, he made an influential educational institution out of the Bauhaus, completely new in the way. In its only 14 years of history, the Bauhaus was able to win many important artists as teachers: Lyonel Feininger, Johannes Itten, Josef Albers, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Oskar Schlemmer and László Moholy-Nagy, for example.

Famous buildings and the new objectivity

Several buildings to this day were created. The first joint project of the Bauhaus School was the House of Sommerfeld in Berlin Lichterfelde. In 1923 the model house "Am Horn" was built in Weimar, the first project, the architecture and facility of which continuously embodied the "new objectivity ".

In Dessau, in addition to the Bauhaus building designed by Gropius, many other Bauhaus buildings were built with the associated master houses and the Gropiusiedlung in Dessau-Törten. The Federal School of the General German Trade Union Confederation in Berlin Bernau, the Mies-von-der-Rohe-Haus in Berlin Hohenschönhausen and the House of the People in Probstzella are also known and famous. Former students of the Bauhaus Schufen Bauhaus-Bauten in Vienna and in Prague, in Budapest and in Zurich.

Political classification up to closure

In the Weimar Republic, teachers, learners and supporters of the Bauhaus were considered "left" and "internationalist", the right government in Thuringia in 1924 shortened the budget of the Bauhaus by half, in 1925 the master council decided to move to Dessau. In 1928 Gropius resigned as a director, the successor after his proposal became the Swiss Hannes Meyer, he gave the architecture his own department in the Bauhaus and strengthened the technical subjects.

Meyer was released in 1930 for political reasons, for the National Socialists the Bauhaus was a "red cadre tension". With Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, one of the most important modern architects could be won as the new director.

But the NSDAP was on the advance, in 1932 the Bauhaus in Dessau was closed, and Mies van der Rohes also attempts to establish the educational center in Berlin failed due to increasing political pressure. In 1933, the pioneering institution was finally forced by the National Socialists to resolve them.

The Bauhaus building Dessau, designed by Walter Gropius

The architecture of the Bauhaus style is inaccurate that the work of the Bauhaus adept is more of a part of cross-country and long-lasting trends, which are now understood under the terms classical modernism, functionalism, new objectivity, new building and international style.

One of the most serious innovations in the Bauhaus remains the connection of the previously strictly separate ways of working in the visual arts, applied art and the performing art. The resulting way of thinking also had a strong charisma on painting, music and acting.

The design of the Bauhaus also produced quite a few design classics whether it was the first furniture from the new material steel tube (the Freibelle from Marcel Breuer), the Junghans kitchen clock by Max Bill, the art of consumption made of stainless steel by Marianne Brandt, Futura by Paul Renner or numerous goods in the industrial design by Wilhelm Wagenfeld. Bauhaus work should be objectively, functionally perfect and skillful, and this is exactly how the pieces from back then look, or the buildings that are preserved in our cities in Bauhaus style.

After the short period of the Bauhaus, the more and more buildings in Bauhaus-style were built, and a lot is still being built in this style, and everyone today has been thoroughly concerned with the principles of the Bauhaus. Even prefabricated houses are offered in Bauhaus architecture, gladly bought by people who almost wanted to give up the idea of ​​building the house with house designs called “Bel Portals” or “Sanssouci”.

So you can say: The Bauhaus lives, the "Less Is More" (less is more) by Mies van der Rohe followed "Form Follow Function" (form follows the function) by Louis Sullivan, which was completely complete.

Which is not only continuously proven in modern designs, but also shows that everyday objects of the Bauhaus artists are still in very popular and usable collectibles.

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