Bauhaus - Basic Art Series, Book

In a brief fourteen years between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus art and design school changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craft and technology to be applied to painting, sculpture, design, architecture, film, photography, textiles, ceramics, theatre and installation. Both an intense personal community and a collective of public thought, the Bauhaus was initially founded by Walter Gropius (1883-1969), and counted Josef and Anni Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Gunta Stölzl, Marianne Brandt and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe among its members. Between its three successive units in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, the school fostered charismatic and creative exchanges between teachers and students, all varied in artistic styles and preferences, but united in their idealism and interest in a “total” work of art in different practices and media.