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BAUHAUS Weimar Dessau Berlin Official Bauhaus Logo Oskar Schlemmer 1922 Anna Renton
BIOGRAPHY
Walter Gropius in front of his plans for the Törtensettlement Dessau, 1927
The Bauhaus School was founded in Weimar in 1919 by Walter Gropius. His goal was to improve Germany's industrial design. Joined by him were artists that came out of movements like Constructivism and Dadaism. Some of the main teachers included Josef Albers, Paul Klee, Wassily Kadinsky, Herbert Bayer, Joost Schmidt, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. One objective of the school was to reunite arts and crafts and another was to create functional design. The Bauhaus school was moved to Dessau in 1925 and finally to Berlin in 1930. The school was closed in1933 by the Nazis.
Walter Gropius in front of his plans for the Törtensettlement Dessau, 1927
H E R B E R T B AY E R Herbert Bayer joined the faculty at the Bauhaus in Dessau in 1925. He had formerly been a student at the Bauhaus. He taught courses in typogaraphy.
Bank Notes Herbert Bayer Landesregierung, 1923
Bauhuas Journal Herbert Bayer Germany (Dessau), 1928
Bank Notes Herbert Bayer Landesregierung, 1923
Bauhuas Journal Herbert Bayer Germany (Dessau), 1928
L AS ZLO M AH O LY- N A G Y Laszlo Moholy-Nagy joined Paul Klee, and Wassily Kadinsky in 1923 to teach the Vorkers, or Basic Course at Weimar. The course introduced the use of new materials to implement the principles of abstract design. Moholy-Nagy was interested in the theory of “typophoto,” which integrates type and photography.
Sign Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Bauhausverlag, 1923
Die Bauhaus Bücher Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Germany (Dessau), 1927
Sign Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Bauhausverlag, 1923
Die Bauhaus Bücher Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Germany (Dessau), 1927
JOOST SCHMIDT Joost Schmidt was a former student of the Bauhaus when he came back to teach a course in typography in 1925. Many of the letterheads and logos he and Herbert Bayer produced were an extension of MoholyNagy's approach to combining type with images.
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Stadt Dessau Joost Schmidt 1930
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Stadt Dessau Joost Schmidt 1930