School of architecture, art and design in Weimar Germany that existed during 1919-1933. Taught both various arts including crafts and architecture, reunited and brought the end of division between two. First built in Weimar in 1919, moved to Dessau in 1925, and relocated to Berlin in 1932. Had to be shut down in 1933 due to the Nazis.
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius
Born 18/5/1883 in Berlin; died 5/7/1963 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US was the original architect of the Bauhaus School he founded. He attended Technical University Munich in 1903-1905, and Technical University Berlin in 1906-1908.
He combined two schools, Weimar Academy of Art and Weimar School of Art and Craft into Bauhaus, or the “House of Building”, which brought great impact in our modern furnitures and designs today.
Buildings with Bauhaus design
Purpose of the Bauhaus was to teach the understanding between art and technology.
Examples of Bauhaus architecture some are more modern, all are based upon the simple use of geometry in architecture.
Most influential architects and designers of modern age are from Bauhaus, and teaching methods are widely spreaded throughout the world in many art and crafting schools.
Basic course of Bauhaus education
Basic course taught by Johannes Itten
The two middle rings focused on technical craft skills, which emphasized functionalism through simplified, geometric forms that allowed new designs to be reproduced.
Middle section focused on building constructions in specific, the materials and studies needed to complete the Bauhaus buildings.
Products from Bauhaus
Gropius sought for the visionary crafts that combined both beauty and functions of technology, and bauhaus produced what successfully fit in his purpose.
Many furnitures, architectures, and designs we have today are based on the Bauhaus designs and productions.
Wassily Kandinsky
Born December 16, 1866, Moscow, Russia and died December 13, 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. His style was influenced by many expressionism artists like Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh. He started teaching in Bauhaus from 1922, taught the courses “Analytical Drawing”, “Basic of artistic design”, and “Colour”, which taught theories of art, abstraction, color, and design.
Paul Klee
Born December 18, 1879, Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland and died June 29, 1940, Muralto, Switzerland. He was one of the main artists in Bauhaus whose main style was expressionism, cubism however also taught geometric abstraction.
The “Schienenzeppelin” or also known as the “rail zeppelin” was a large train named after the zeppelin as it resembled its shape and form. The original founder and designer of the rail zeppelin was Franz Kruckenberg he was an aircraft engineer and designed and built the rail zeppelin in 1929. Due to the extra propeller on the rear end of the rail zeppelin it could reach an astonishing speed of up to 230 kmh setting a land speed record for vehicles.
Franz Kruckenberg
Was a aircraft engineer who was the founder and designer of the rail zeppelin. Franz Kruckenberg had also previously designed many other high speed trains. Due to his advanced engineering Kruckenberg played a big role in the Weimar republic as he was one of the main engineers for transportation.
How was the rail zeppelin important?
The rail zeppelin played a big role in the architecture of Weimar germany as set new records for the fastest land vehicle and also was the fastest way people could be transported from city to city. With faster transportation it would allow germany to rebuild themselves after the first war more easily as they could transport goods and resources from industrialized cities to more rural areas.
