In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world
wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face
of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school
developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and
technology to be applied across painting, sculpture, design,
architecture, film, photography, textiles, ceramics, theatre, and
installation. As much an intense personal community as a publicly
minded collective, the Bauhaus was first founded by Walter Gropius
(1883-1969), and counted Josef and Anni Albers, Wassily Kandinsky,
Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Gunta Stoelzl, Marianne Brandt and
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe among its members. Between its three
successive locations in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, the school
fostered charismatic and creative exchange between teachers and
students, all varied in their artistic styles and preferences, but
united in their idealism and their interest in a "total" work of
art across different practices and media. This book celebrates the
adventurous innovation of the Bauhaus movement, both as a
trailblazer in the development of modernism, and as a paradigm of
art education, where an all-encompassing freedom of creative
expression and cutting-edge ideas led to functional and beautiful
creations. About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series
has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever
published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture series
features: an introduction to the life and work of the architect the
major works in chronological order information about the clients,
architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and
resolutions a list of all the selected works and a map indicating
the locations of the best and most famous buildings approximately
120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts, and plans)
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