This powerpoint introduces the Design History students to the style and era of Bauhaus.

1. Bauhaus is the common term for the Staatliches Bauhaus an art and architecture school in Germany that operated from 1919 to 1933, and for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. The most natural meaning for its name (related to the German verb for "build") is Architecture House. Bauhaus style became one of the most influential currents in Modernist architecture, and one of the most important currents of the New Objectivity.[

4. Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1927 Gropius, Breuer , and Moholy-Nagy re-assembled in England during the mid 1910s to live and work in the Isokon project before the war caught up to them. Both Gropius and Breuer went to teach at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and worked together before their professional split in 1921. The Harvard School was enormously influential in America in the late 1920s and early 1930s, producing such students as Philip Johnson , I.M. Pei , Lawrence Halprin and Paul Rudolph, among many others. The Fagus Works shoe factory, in Alfed, Germany, was one of his early designs, conceived in 1911 and 1912 with Adolph Meyer.

5. Interior - gropius

7. Berlin Although neither the Nazi Party nor Hitler himself had a cohesive architectural 'policy' in the 1930s, Nazi writers like Wilhelm Frick and Alfred Rosenberg had labelled the Bauhaus "un-German" and criticized its modernist styles, deliberately generating public controversy over issues like flat roofs. Increasingly through the early 1930s, they characterized the Bauhaus as a front for Communists, Russian, and social liberals. Indeed, second director Hannes Meyer was an avowed Communist, and he and a number of loyal students moved to the Soviet Union in 1930.

8. The design innovations commonly associated with Gropius and the Bauhaus -- the radically simplified forms, the rationality and functionality, and the idea that mass-production was reconcilable with the individual artistic spirit -- were already partly developed in Germany before the Bauhaus was founded. Beginning in June 1907, Peter Behrens' pioneering industrial design work for the German electrical company AEG successfully integrated art and mass production on a large scale. He designed consumer products, standardized parts, created clean-lined designs for the company's graphics, developed a consistent corporate identity , built the modernist landmark AEG Turbine Factory, and made full use of newly developed materials such as poured concrete and exposed steel. Behrens was a founding member of the Werkbund, and both Walter Gropius and Adolf Meier worked for him in this period.

9. Peter Behrens hanging light fixture,

10. László Moholy-Nagy [ ˈ la ː slo ː ˈ moholi- ˌ n ɒɟ ]) 1895 –1946) Hungarian painter Moholy-Nagy was born László Weisz to a family of mixed Jewish and Hungarian heritage. He changed his German-Jewish surname to the Magyar surname of his uncle, Nagy. Later, he added the pseudonym "Moholy" to his surname, after the town in which he grew up. After studying law in Budapest and serving in the World War I, Moholy-Nagy was in Vienna in 1919 where he first discovered constructivism in exhibitions of works of Malevich, Naum Gabo and El Lissitzky.

13. 1922 1924 1939 Moholy-Nagy László: Fotogram.

17. The Broken Marriage 1925 sculpture