Bauhaus

     The Bauhaus also known as the “Staatliches Bauhaus” was a school that merged fine-arts with crafts. This school was famous because of the unique sense of design it taught. The school started to operate from 1919 to 1933.
   

     The founder of the school was Walter Gropius in Weimar. Although Walter was an architect the school did not have an architectural department in the first few years of the school’s existence. The purpose of this school was to incorporate architecture and art and use them to create artworks with these elements. Throughout time the school changed the locations of where it was and the directors for 3 times.
   

       The Bauhaus was spread all over America, Canada, Israel and Western Europe because either they fled the country or the Nazis exiled them. During the mid-1930s; Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and László Moholy-Nagy joined forces together in Britain to live and work on the Isokon project. Gropius and Breuer went to teach at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and worked together as a team before they stopped working together. Their collaboration produced The Aluminum City Terrace in New Kensington, Pennsylvania and the Alan I W Frank House in Pittsburgh and other projects.

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 13 May 2013].