What is Bauhaus?

Bauhaus was a design school that appeared in Germany in 1919. Bauhaus designers and their students broke from tradition and developed a very modernist style. Their primary intention was to integrate the art, technology and craftsmanship by ignoring the precedens and creating a new philosophy of design. Innovative ideas ranged from architecture to furniture design to typography. They believed that the design of any kind should be considered a high art, as well as painting or sculpture. The school was Russian.

Perhaps the best -known Bauhaus school developers included Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Mies van der Rohe. Less known names, but perhaps the same influential are: Lyonel Feininger, Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. The influence of the school is still alive; Many modern buildings, offices and pieces of furniture hardly attract a style presented by Bauhaus.