“Building house”. * Most influential school of design * Stood for modern simple forms, and to unify art, craft, and technology * Teachers included:

“Building house”

*Bauhaus

Out with the old - in with the

new

*1919-1933

*Most influential school of design*Stood for modern simple forms, and to

unify art, craft, and technology

*Teachers included:*Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky*Johannes Itten*Josef Albers*Herbert Bayer*László Moholy-Nag

*William Morris (1834-96, England)

*The Bauhaus was influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement (1860-1910)*William Morris (England) led

the Arts and Crafts Movement

*Walter Gropius (b. Berlin1883-

1969)

*The Bauhaus was founded by

by Walter Gropius in 1919 in Weimer, Germany*The Bauhaus moved to

Dessau, Germany in 1925

*Herbert Bayer(1900-1985)

*Bayer was to design a typeface for all Bauhaus communiqués. *He created an "idealist typeface." The result was "universal" - a rather simple geometric sans-serif font.

*Johannes Itten(1888-1967)

*Itten taught colour threory still in use today.*His colour wheel

contained 12 colours: the 3 primary colours, 3 secondary, and 6 tertiary colours.

Source of image of Itten. Serge Lachinov, Wiki Commons; Bauhaus. Bauhaus archiv. 1919-1933. Magdalena Drost. Benedikt Taschen. 1990

*Paul Klee(1879-1940)

SourceThomas Kain/ Mona Meister/ Franz-Joachim Verspohl (Hrsg.): Paul Klee in Jena 1924. Der Vortrag. Minerva. Jenaer Schriften zur Kunstgeschichte, Band 10, Kunsthistorisches Seminar, Jenoptik AG, Druckhaus Gera, Jena 1999, ISBN 3-932081-34-X, S. 91.AuthorAlexander Eliasberg (1878–1924)

Source http://www.abcgallery.com/K/klee/klee.html - 1922

*Influences of the Bauhaus

*Modernism. Modernist movement of the 20th century - pure, clean lines, simply geometry, stark forms, rejection of past traditions, without ornament)*Colour theory*They way design is taught in schools and

colleges today goes back to the Bauhaus, the first school of design*Big brands: Apple? Steve Jobs? Braun?