BAUHAUS Selection

Bauhaus was an influential design & art movement that began in 1919 in Weimar, Germany.

Walter Gropius

The Weimar school founded by architect Walter Gropius in 1919 was inspired by Expressionist art and the work of architect Frank Lloyd Wright and designer William Morris. Its creators believed in bringing artists and craftspeople together for a utopian purpose. Under the leadership of Gropius, the Bauhaus movement made no special distinction between the applied and fine arts. Painting, typography, architecture, textile design, furniture-making, theater design, stained glass, woodworking, metalworking—these all found a place there.

Bauhaus students Photo: Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
Excerpt from Bauhaus book

Bauhaus Design style

The Bauhaus style tends to feature simple geometric shapes like rectangles and spheres, without elaborate decorations. Buildings, furniture, and fonts often feature rounded corners and sometimes rounded walls. Other buildings are characterized by rectangular features, for example protruding balconies with flat, chunky railings facing the street, and long banks of windows. Furniture often uses chrome metal pipes that curve at corners.

Museum Bauhaus, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau , Image: Thomas Meyer Ostkreuz

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