Bauhaus

 

It was founded in 1919 in the city of Weimer by German architect Walter Gropius. The objective was to reimagine the material world to reflect the unity of arts. The reason for this was to combine architecture, sculpture and painting into a single creative expression. He invented a craft-based curriculum that would turn out artisans and designers able to create useful and beautiful objects that fit into this new system of living.

Summary, he wanted to create a new type of art where you could create the weird and wonderful and were people could express themselves through different medium of arts.

It combined elements of both fine arts and design education. This commenced with a preliminary course that immersed students, who came from different social areas and educational backgrounds, in the study of materials, colour theory and formal relationships in preparation for more specialized studies. This course was taught often by visual artists including Paul Klee, Vasily Kandisky and Josef Albers among others.

The cabinetmaking workshop was one of the most popular at the Bauhaus. Under the direction of Marcel Breuer from 1924 to 1928, this studio reconceived the very essence of furniture, often seeking to dematerialize conventional forms such as chairs to their minimal existence. Breuer theorized that eventually chairs would become obsolete, replaced by supportive columns or air. Inspired by the extruded steel tubes of his bicycle, he experimented with metal furniture, ultimately creating lightweight, mass-producible metal chairs. Some of these chairs were deployed in the theater of the Dessau building.

 

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