Bauhaus_Essay

Bauhaus Essay The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 by an architect named Walter Gropius. Gropius came from the Werkbund movement, which sought to integrate art and economics, and to add an element of engineering to art. The Werkbund movement was unable to achieve this integration, but the founding of the Bauhaus saw the solution that had previously been overlooked. The Bauhaus was founded by the combining of the Weimar Art Academy, and the Weimar Arts and Crafts School. Students at this new school were trained by both an artist and a master craftsman, realizing the desires of Gropius to make "modern artists familiar with science and economics, [that] began to unite creative imagination with a practical knowledge of craftsmanship, and thus to develop a new sense of functional design." The school had three aims at its inception that stayed basically the same throughout the life of the Bauhaus even though the direction of the school changed significantly and repeatedly. The first aim of the school was to "rescue all of the arts from the isolation in which each then found itself," to encourage the individual artisans and craftsmen to work cooperatively and combine all of their skills. Secondly, the school set out to bauhaus, typography, school, fonts, new, german, using, things, letters, germany, font, art, work, single, serif, same, make, less, ideas, favoured, weimar, upon, today, time, take, small, since, sense, sans, radical, people, out, must, looked, industry, favourably, everyone, even, easier, disliked, designs, design, clarity, chairs, case, capital, been, bayer, arts, write, werkbund