The Bauhaus School was an academy of art and design founded in Weimar, Germany in 1919 by Walter Gropius. Bauhaus is a German expression that literally means "house for building.
The Bauhaus School is a school of design founded in Weimar, Germany in 1919 by Walter Gropius. Its signature modernist style, integrating Expressionist art with the fields of architecture and design, was enormously influential throughout the world.
The Bauhaus school was founded in Weimar in 1919 by Walter Gropius (1883- 1969), an architect who felt that it was his duty to be involved in the community.
The Bauhaus School (Germany, 1919-1933)
Derived from the two German words "bau" for building and "haus" for house, the Bauhaus school of art and design was founded in 1919 by the architect Walter Gropius.
The Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar. In spite of its name, and the fact that its founder was an architect, the Bauhaus did not have an architecture department during the first years of its existence.
The Bauhaus school was created when Walter Gropius was appointed head of two art schools in Weimar and united them in one. He coined the term Bauhaus as an inversion of 'Hausbau' - house construction.
There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France where he lived the rest of his life, and became a French citizen in 1939. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944.
The Bauhaus School was Germany's most important and most avant-garde art and design school. In existence from 1919, many of its teachers found a new home in the USA when the Nazis forced the school to close in 1933. articons.co.
Bauhaus is a style associated with the Bauhaus school, an extremely influential art and design school in Weimar Germany that emphasized functionality and efficiency of design.
Although the school was closed by the Nazis in 1933, followers of the ideas of the Bauhaus school continued working in other countries.
Beaux-arts: A school of fine arts located in Paris which stressed the necessity of academic painting.
The Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius. The name Bauhaus stems from the German words for "to build" and "house.
After World War I, a demoralized and shell shocked Klee taught at the Bauhaus school and wrote the influential Pedagogical Sketchbook in 1925.
The Bauhaus school had some famous teachers which included Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Marcel Breuer.
The movement spread throughout Europe and was a strong influence on Walter Gropius in his founding of the Bauhaus School in Germany.
 See also: Bauhaus, School, Movement, Painting, Expression
  
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