Bauhaus
- The Bauhaus followed the principles and values that the Wiener Werkstaette and the Arts and Crafts movement established.
- Weimar Republic one of the most creative periods in the 20th century
Cabaret (1972) Willkommen
Berlin 1930s
ruskin, morris, edward burne-jones arts and crafts movement represents fear of industrialisation
Passmore Edwards (founded camberwell) also walter crane (south london gallery)
Herman Muthesius (Germany) Das Englische Haus - celebration of the english lifestyle Cultural Spy for the prussian government only room in the house that is forward-thinking is the bathroom "Art based on actual modern conditions" Bathroom is the height of arts
Viewed Berlin Jugenstil School as backward german art virtually unknown The word german had become synonymous with tasteless
helped to set up werkbund behind the scenes werkund works together with factory owners, artists, designers, people from wiener werbund, KT dude from AEG
Adolf Loose - Ornament and Crime very influental for the werkbund ornamentation causes things to go out of fashion "ornament IS crime" becomes moernist mantra
Peter Behrens - Product designer, designed turbine building for aeg Walter Gropius Mies Van der Rohe Le Corbusier All worked for behrens
First world war
Made Walter gropius question is ideas about industrialism kaiser steps down, new government is formed in weimar
Walter Gropius merges two schools together into staatliches baugaus weimar manifesto - architecture is fucked up KT in order to make architecture, you have to make everuthing that goes into it "Gesamtkunstwerk" art can not be taught, one must retur to the workshop. There is no such thing as art by profession art is only useful when it informs design. theres no difference between the artist and the artisan
training programme in weimar state funding, fees, wants to get funding directly from industry teaching is done masters of form, masters of craft
Johannes Itten most infuential tutor at the bauhaus book on colour theory
Paul Klee invited by itten called art curiosities for snobs encouragement of art in all directions
theo van doesburg der stil magazine the use of machines must be governed by artistic vision
Rietveld Chair
Marcel Breuer: Wassily Chair
1925 bauhaus moves from weimar to dessau 1928 gropius steps down, hannes meyer takes over makes the workshops for productive, more commercial work Schwintzer & Graff lamps herbert bayer bauhaus universal typeface barcelona pavillion bauhaus accused of being communist by national socialism mies van der rohe beocomes new head of the bauhaus
Local nazis first action is to close the bauhaus.
End of cabaret film: everyone in nazi uniforms
Tutors go on to do all sorts of different things
max bill helped build swiss design worked with dieter rahms
mariane brandt teapot barcelona chair all this stuff is still in production