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Bauhaus Bauhaus, German for house of construction (School of Building).

Resource: http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2009/bauhaus/Main.html#

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The word Bauhaus is often used popularly as a kind of shorthand for an international modern syle unmoored from any particular moment. (MOMA publication, Currators Preface, 12). Weinmar Republic, 1919-1933. Also know as the International Style, visual hallmarks of Bauhaus are absence of ornament and close relationships between the design and function of an object/building.

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Bauhaus was many things: -Publisher -Advertising agency -Industrial-design partner -Fabricator -A SCHOOL

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Locations Weinmar (1919-25) Bessau (1925-32) Berlin (1932-33)

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Bauhauss 3 directors (all architects but with divergent points of view): Walter Gropius (1919-28) Hannes Meyer(1928-30) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1930-33) -Closed by leadership under Nazi pressure (for its un-German, modernist style).

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Lszl Moholy-Nagy

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Marianne Brandt, c1924, silver and ebony. [The only woman enrolled in the schools metal workshop, designed this silver teapot while still a student. By interrelating a number of pure geometric forms, including the hemisphere, circle, and cylinder, Brandts design explores their formal relationship in space. Like other functional Bauhaus items, the teapot was designed to work well in addition to looking goodit is well balanced and easy to pour.} Sold at Auction $361,000, 2008 Sothebys.

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Herbert Bayer, Birthday poster for Kandinsky.

Kandinskys Red-Yellow-Blue, 1925.

In looking across this historical sweep, we approach the Bauhaus not as an artistic style or a programmatic movement but as a vibrant school. We see a wide range of artists--both men and women, from the schools best-known masters to virtually unknown students--and a broad variety of types of work, from course exercises and unrealized projects to finished artworks and widely distributed goods. This breadth maps and complicates the schools intellectual terrain, and helps us as retrospective observers to see what shapes the schools products into something more than the sum of its individual artists works: the collective nature of its ideas. Key principles emerge, among them a commitment to abstraction as the language of the modern and a redefinition of the artist as designer of systems. Yet perhaps the keenest impulse is a pervasive skepticism about received knowledge. In challenging the way traditional academies taught students through the imitation of historical models, the Bauhaus worked as a laboratory for ongoing experiment. (MOMA publication, Currators Preface, 12-13)

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Architecture

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Architecture

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