Bauhaus

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.