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The Bauhaus emblem, designed by Oskar Schlemmer, was adopted in 1922. Typography by Herbert Bayer above the entrance to the workshop block of the Bauhaus Dessau, 2005. The Staatliches Bauhaus (German: [ˈʃtaːtlɪçəs ˈbaʊˌhaʊs] ⓘ), commonly known as the Bauhaus (German for 'building house'), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts. [1]
After the Bauhaus in Weimar closed, the buildings were used by a number of successor arts-related educational institutions. Today, after various mergers, restructurings, and renamings, the present day Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, founded in 1996, operates on the former Bauhaus site, teaching art, design, and technology-related courses. [4]
Marianne Brandt (1 October 1893 – 18 June 1983) was a German painter, sculptor, photographer, metalsmith, and designer who studied at the Bauhaus art school in Weimar and later became head of the Bauhaus Metall-Werkstatt (Metal Workshop) in Dessau in 1928. Today, Brandt's designs for household objects such as lamps and ashtrays are considered ...
Marcel Lajos Breuer (/ ˈ b r ɔɪ ər / BROY-ur; German: [ˈbʁɔʏɐ]; 21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981) was a Hungarian-German modernist architect and furniture designer. He moved to the United States in 1937 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1944.
1926 Gropius, Moholy-Nagy, Kandinsky, and Muche Interiors– the Bauhaus – Dessau, Germany; 1927 Piscator Apartment – Berlin, Germany; 1927 Weissenhof Siedlung – Gropius and Stam Apartment Interiors – Stuttgart, Germany; 1928 First cantilevered steel chair (the Cesca) 1929 Model B 55 cantilevered steel chair [1]
The architectural designs for the house came from Gropius and Adolf Meyer. The Sommerfeld House was completed in 1921. In 1923, Gropius designed his famous door handles, now considered an icon of 20th-century design and often listed as one of the most influential designs to emerge from Bauhaus.
Wassily chair by Marcel Breuer Wassily Kandinsky and Wassily Chair Marcel Breuer Faltsessel, Chair D4 (1927), from the Bauhaus Dessau Wassily chairs in the Bauhaus of Dessau The Wassily Chair , also known as the Model B3 chair , was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925–1926 while he was the head of the cabinet-making workshop at the Bauhaus , in ...
The Bauhaus typeface design is based on Herbert Bayer's 1925 experimental Universal typeface and the Bauhaus aesthetic overall. The Bauhaus school sought to modernize, unify and standardize design into an idealistic form that would combine function with aesthetics. One aspect of their many proposed reforms was a series of related Bauhaus typefaces.