Knowra Bauhaus Bauhaus Bauhaus was a German school of art, design, and architecture founded by Walter Gropius in 1919. It united artistic practice with craft and industrial production before closing under Nazi pressure in 1933.
Walter Gropius : Walter Gropius was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus. He founded the school in Weimar in 1919 and set its early direction.
Bauhaus preliminary course : The Bauhaus preliminary course introduced students to materials, color, composition, and form through practical exercises. It gave students a shared foundation before specialized workshop study.
Johannes Itten : Johannes Itten was a Swiss painter and teacher who developed the Bauhaus preliminary course. His color and material exercises shaped the school’s first foundational curriculum.
Wassily Chair : The Wassily Chair is a tubular-steel and leather chair designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925–26. It shows how a Bauhaus workshop experiment became a modern furniture design.
New Bauhaus : The New Bauhaus was a design school founded in Chicago by László Moholy-Nagy in 1937. Moholy-Nagy carried Bauhaus teaching methods to the United States after the original school closed.
Weimar Republic : The Weimar Republic was Germany’s democratic government from 1918 to 1933. Bauhaus began and developed amid the republic’s political and cultural experimentation.
Bauhaus workshops : The Bauhaus workshops taught design through practical work in fields such as weaving, metal, wood, and ceramics. Workshop production connected artistic experiments with usable objects and craft skills.
László Moholy-Nagy : László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian artist, photographer, and teacher associated with Constructivism and the Bauhaus. He redirected preliminary teaching toward technology, materials, and industrial production.
Bauhaus Dessau : Bauhaus Dessau is the school complex designed by Walter Gropius and opened in 1926. Its glass facade, workshops, and studios made the school’s design ideals architectural.
Black Mountain College : Black Mountain College was an experimental liberal arts college in North Carolina, active from 1933 to 1957. Former Bauhaus teacher Josef Albers helped shape its interdisciplinary art education.
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