{"id":6655,"date":"2020-09-12T18:55:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T17:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/?p=6655"},"modified":"2024-10-12T16:32:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T15:32:47","slug":"bauhaus-art-school-shaping-the-development-of-modern-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/?p=6655","title":{"rendered":"Bauhaus Art School – Shaping the development of Modern Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

(sguraziu – ars poetica, april, 2020)<\/em><\/p>\n

Bauhaus Art School<\/strong> (1919-1933) – a vital epoch in the history of modern art, architecture, design, and education, Bauhaus has profoundly inspired generations of artists across the globe – founded by one of the brilliant minds of the 20th century, Walter Gropius (1883-1969), “Bauhaus” was active only for 14 years but its avant-garde artistic practice shaped the development of Modern art…<\/p>\n

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Directors Office (in Bauhaus Main Building, Weimar, Germany), designed by Walter Gropius in 1919
\n(amazing, even after 100 years – simply timeless design)<\/p>\n

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\nBauhaus Masters… on the roof of the Bauhaus Main Building, Weimar, Germany, ~1920<\/p>\n

Bauhaus Masters… on the roof of the Bauhaus Main Building, Weimar, Germany, ~1920
\n(L – R: Josef Albers, Hinnerk Scheper, Georg Muche, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Joost Schmidt, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Gunta Stozl, Oskar Schlemmer)<\/p>\n

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) – The Cassina LC2 Chair, 1928<\/strong> (designed together with Pierre Jeanneret & Charlotte Perriand) – (Right) – Steve Jobs (1955-2011) presenting iPad to the world in 2010<\/strong>, sitting in the Cassina LC2 Chair, designed in 1928 by Le Corbusier, P. Jeanneret, C. Perriand
\n(…some years ago I wrote somewhere that iPads are “copies” of Cubrick’s Pads (thus from his movie, 2001-Space Odyssey), what I meant was: both Stanley Cubrick and Apple were influenced by “Bauhaus” design philosophy, they both were copying the same beauty, thus simply following the Bauhaus “terms” of Modernism \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius (1883-1969), in 1955 – (Right) Le Corbusier and Albert Einstein (1879-1955), in 1946
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\nLe Corbusier and Walter Gropius (1883-1969), in 1955 – (Right) Le Corbusier and Albert Einstein (1879-1955), in 1946<\/p>\n

Josef Albers (1888-1976) – Rhythm, 1958<\/strong> – Josef Albers was invited by Walter Gropius to teach alongside Paul Klee in the glass workshops, it was here that Albers was to begin his study and interest in the pure geometry of the square, which would come to define his later career…<\/p>\n

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\nJosef Albers (1888-1976) – Rhythm, 1958
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(sguraziu – ars poetica, april, 2020) Bauhaus Art School (1919-1933) – a vital epoch in the history of modern art, architecture, design, and education, Bauhaus has profoundly inspired generations of artists across the globe – founded by one of the… Lexo →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}