From the left: Josef Albers, Hinnerk Scheper, Georg Muche...

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The Bauhaus masters on the roof of the Bauhaus building in Dessau. From the left: Josef Albers, Hinnerk Scheper, Georg Muche, László Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Joost Schmidt, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Vassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Gunta Stölzl and Oskar Schlemmer. Teachers were called ‘Masters’ and selected to teach specific subjects. These masters were some of the best artists of the time. Such as Kandinsky and Paul Klee. It would be like you being taught to paint by Jenney Saville or shown how to spray paint by Banksy.

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The Bauhaus masters on the roof of the Bauhaus building in Dessau.

From the left: Josef Albers, Hinnerk Scheper, Georg Muche, László Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer,

Joost Schmidt, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Vassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Gunta

Stölzl and Oskar Schlemmer.

Teachers were called ‘Masters’ and selected to teach specific subjects. These masters were some of

the best artists of the time. Such as Kandinsky and Paul Klee. It would be like you being taught to

paint by Jenney Saville or shown how to spray paint by Banksy.

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Walter Gropius was a trained Architect and Designer who founded

the Bauhaus in 1919. (Just after the First World War) He wanted to

create a new type of Art College that would provide young people

with practical and intellectual skills that would make the world

more civilised and less selfish place. He was going to train the next

generation of artists and designers. He called it ‘A cathedral of

ideas that would spark energy and life into depressed and drab

world’

All students completed a preliminary course and then progressed

from there into other subjects and areas. Gropius created a school

where traditional crafts and apprentices were combined with fine

art to create a more equal playfield for artists, designers and

craftspeople.

In 1923 the school changed slightly and began to focus more on

industrial methods of production using more modern materials

such as steel and glass. While the work produced looked mass

produced it was all still being handmade.

The Bauhaus moved in 1925 to the town of Dessau as a result of

changes in funding and the German Government. This gave

Gropius the opportunity to design the Art School from scratch,

created by both staff and students the fittings, furniture, murals,

signs and building were all in keeping with Gropius’s vision for

simple, elegant, geometric, functional space.

Gropius resigned from the Bauhaus in 1928 and Mies Van Der

Rohe took over.

In 1933 Hitler ordered the closure of the world’s greatest art

school, the Second World War was close and many of the teacher

and students headed for America, the land of the free.

“Specialists are

people who

always make the

same mistakes”

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Josef Albers was a painter, poet, sculptor, art

theorist, and teacher. He studied at the Bauhaus

from 1920 to 1923 at the Bauhaus Weimar where he

attended the glass painting workshop. He eventually

became a Master at the Bauhaus teaching the initial

course. Albers’s important works include the glass

pictures that he created in 1928 during his Bauhaus

period, designs for furniture and everyday utility

objects made of wood and glass. Among his most

successful students were Robert Rauschenberg, Cy

Twombly, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Eva Hesse, and John

Chamberlain.

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Born in 1910. He came to the

Bauhaus in 1930. Kranz began to

experiment with photographic

techniques and created some of the

most striking abstract picture series

to emerge from the Bauhaus.

Alienated and abstracted faces and

hands appear repeatedly in his

photographs.

Hungarian-born abstract painter, designer, typographer,

photographer, film-maker. He became a master at the

Bauhaus first as head of the metal workshop, then head of

the preparatory course. He then became involved with

experimental photography, including photograms. Moholy-

Nagy was fascinated by light throughout his career, and

photograms offered the opportunity to experiment with the

subtlety of light and shade.

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The Bauhaus architecture style combined

artistic, practical and social purposes. It

also favours function over decoration. They

wanted to create space in the building

instead of having the building take up the

space. Bauhaus architecture rejects

decorative details and wished to use

Classical architecture and its scientific,

geometric style. The buildings have flat

roofs, smooth facades, right angles,

although some feature rounded corners.

The colours used are white, grey, black, or

beige, dull colours which show the lack of

ornamentation and the floor plans are

open and the furniture is functional.

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Born October 11, 1896.

Her work was original,

functional, very beautiful

and remarkably

advanced for its time.

Wildenhain studied at

the Bauhaus for about

five years.

Gunta created immense

change within the textile

field by uniting art

practices taught at

Bauhaus with traditional

textile techniques and

became the first woman

Master at the school.

Stölzl developed textile

covers for some of the

furniture designed by

Marcel Breuer at the

Bauhaus.

Marianne Brandt, German painter,

sculptor, photographer and

designer who studied at the

Bauhaus school and became head of

the metal workshop in 1928

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Born in 1866 Kandinsky was an Expressionist and Abstract

painter. In 1922 Kandinsky accepted a teaching position at

the Bauhaus, and became Master of Form, Colour Theory

and Basic Design. Kandinsky conducted the Wall Painting

Workshop and Preliminary Course. An influential painter

he worked with abstract colours and shapes and precise,

geometrical forms.