Bauhaus

Walter Gropius (1883–1969) a German architect. Founded the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany in 1919. It was the most influential modernist art school of the 20^th century whose outlook towards teaching and the understanding of the Art’s relationship to society and technology left a major impact in Europe and the United States after its time. Gropius described this as a “vision for a union of art and design” which expressed a utopian craft guild combining architecture, sculpture and painting into one single expression.

In its early years, the school’s exposure towards romantic medievalism, portrayed itself as a medieval craft guild, which, by the middle of the 1920’s phased out and made way to the new concept of uniting art and industrial design which later on proved to be the most original and important achievement.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895 – 1946)

Hungarian-American Designer, Filmmaker, Painter, Photographer, Sculptor, and Theoretician

Movement: Bauhaus

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, a modernist and experimentalist. Born in Hungary and influenced by Dadaism, Supremacism, Constructivism and debates about photography.

Invited by Walter Gropius, he revolutionised the Bauhaus school’s crucial preliminary course and gave it a more practical, experimental and technological outlook.

He later on moved on into various design aspects such as commercial design, theatre set design, made films and also a magazine art director.

His greatest achievement was the version of Bauhaus teaching which he took over to the United States, where he established a highly prominent Institute of Design in Chicago, which truly left his mark on post-war education.