Bauhaus movement

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The Bauhaus movement was an influential early 20th-century German art, design, and architecture school and style that fused fine arts with crafts and industrial design, helping to define the principles of modernism.

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instanceOf architectural movement
art movement
design movement
architecturalStyle modernism
characteristicFeature asymmetrical compositions
exposed structural elements
flat roofs and cubic volumes in architecture
primary colors and neutral palettes
commemoratedBy Bauhaus Dessau building
surface form: Bauhaus Dessau Foundation

UNESCO World Heritage designation of Bauhaus sites
corePrinciple emphasis on mass production
form follows function
functionalism
integration of fine arts and crafts
rejection of ornament
unity of art, craft, and technology
use of simple geometric forms
countryOfOrigin Germany
dissolutionDate 1933
fieldOfWork architecture
graphic design
industrial design
interior design
textile design
theatre design
foundedBy Walter Gropius
hasPart Bauhaus Berlin
Bauhaus Dessau building
surface form: Bauhaus Dessau

Bauhaus Weimar
surface form: Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar
inception 1919
influenced International Style
furniture design
graphic design
industrial design
modern architecture
typography
influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
De Stijl
constructivism
industrialization
legacy spread internationally through émigré teachers and architects
locationOfFormation Weimar
movedTo Berlin
Dessau
notableMember Anni Albers
Gunta Stölzl
Hannes Meyer
Josef Albers
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
László Moholy-Nagy
Marcel Breuer
Oskar Schlemmer
Paul Klee
Walter Gropius
Wassily Kandinsky
politicalContext closed under pressure from the Nazi regime
teachingApproach preliminary course in basic design
workshop-based education

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Fagus Factory associatedWith Bauhaus movement
subject surface form: Fagus Factory in Alfeld
Marcel Breuer associatedWith Bauhaus movement
Modernism associatedWith Bauhaus movement
this entity surface form: Neues Bauen movement
Modern architecture hasMovement Bauhaus movement
this entity surface form: Bauhaus architecture
subject surface form: Fagus Factory in Alfeld
this entity surface form: Bauhaus architecture
Paul Klee influenced Bauhaus movement
this entity surface form: Bauhaus students
Rothschild Boulevard knownFor Bauhaus movement
this entity surface form: Bauhaus architecture
Tel Aviv knownFor Bauhaus movement
this entity surface form: Bauhaus architecture