BAUHAUS

During a fleeting fourteen-year span sandwiched between two world wars, the German Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school pioneered the fusion of art, craft and technology applied to painting, sculpture, design, architecture, cinema, photography, weaving, ceramics, theater and art installation.

The Bauhaus was founded by Walter Gropius (1883-1969) as a passionate community and as a collective concerned with social problems, and included Josef and Anni Albers , Wassily Kandinsky , Paul Klee , Oskar Schlemmer , Gunta Stölzl , Marianne Brandt and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe among its members. In its three consecutive locations, Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, the school witnessed a charismatic and creative exchange between teachers and students of diverse artistic styles and preferences, but united in their idealism and interest in a "total" work of art that encompassed different practices and means.

This book is a tribute to the daring and innovation of the Bauhaus movement, a pioneer in the development of modern art and a paradigm of art education , in which total freedom of creative expression and avant-garde ideas gave rise to beautiful and practical creations.