Bahaus!

     Bahaus seemed like a fabulous institute! Bahaus literally means "house for building."  It featured most avant garde art of its time!  Bahaus was founded by Walter Gropius in 1919.  Gropius was a famous architect who wanted to bring people together through art.  Bahaus originally started in Weimar, then Dessau and ended in Berlin in 1933.  Each time the location changed, so did the directors.  Each director focused on a different concept.

Monochrome in Lincoln, Massachusetts built by Walter Gropius

      The schools focused on students ability to experiment and thing out of the box.  There were many different types of classes available as well such as pottery, carpentry, sculpting, weaving, printing and varieties of painting.  Architecture classes were also available but not initially, which I thought was ironic considering Gropius is an architect mastermind.
  










          Many art movements erupted from the institute.  One of the artists who taught at Bahaus was Wassily Kandinsky.  He was an art theorist who created completely original modern designs.  I attached one of his works called, On White II.  I really liked all the different figures and shapes combined together.  

(1923, Wassily Kandinsky)
I did not realize how influential Bahaus really is.  A lot of the modern furniture I have recently been viewing, has been influenced by Bahaus.  Also many buildings have been influenced by Bahaus architecture. Bahaus was much more than a school.  It was a community where artists could experiment with new ideas.