The Bauhaus

The Bauhaus was a school which was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in Germany in the year of the 1919. In this school it was being approached the design and also the combination of the fine arts and also arts and crafts which were major by the major of the influence on the development of the graphic design even in the twentieth century as the modern art. The school was also moved to Dessau in the 1924 but it was forced to close the doors from the Nazi political party in the 1933.

Along with the artist who his name is Gropius and many other artist and also teachers which are Lazlo Moholy-Nagy and Herbert Bayer which made significant contributes on the development of the graphic design. The Bauhaus thought that the typography is a part of the curriculum and also was an instrumental in the development of sans-serif typography. These were the favoured from all the simplified geometric forma and also alternative to the heavily ornate in German standard of the black letter typography. 

The Bauhaus Dessau  

Typography by Herbert Bayer

A stage in the Festsaal 

 The Mensa (dining room) 

 

Mechanically Operated Windows

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The Bauhaus, 1919–1933 | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2013. The Bauhaus, 1919–1933 | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/bauh/hd_bauh.htm.[Accessed 18 May 2013].