Architects during the Weimar Republic were influenced by the bauhaus design college which promoted modern and future looking buildings
walter gropius
born May 18,1883, Berlin, Germany
died July 5, 1969, Boston, Mass, U.S.
Walter Gropius was a German American architect and educator who, particulary as director of the Bauhaus(1919-28), exerted a major influence on the development of modern architecture.
Bauhaus
On 1st of April 1919, the cornerstone was laid for the school of design and architecture. Walter Gropius became the director of the former Grand-Ducal Saxon College of Fine Arts. He united it formally with the College of Applied Art which had been dissolved, and named the resulting institution the State Bauhaus.
Its goal was to merge all artistic mediums into one unified approach, that of combining an individual's artistry with mass production and function. Bauhaus design is often abstract,angular,and geometric,with little ornamentation.
bauhaus school
The school represented the spirit of awakening that was also dominant in the current politics, personified by the national assembly convening in Weimar at the time to pen the constitution.
The bauhaus schools core objective was a radical concept: to reimagine the material world to reflect the unity of all the arts.
sommerfeld house
The Sommerfeld House, constructed between 1920 and 1921, was the first major joint project completed by the Bauhaus school. The house was built in Berlin as a villa for Adolf Sommerfeld (who was a building contractor, lumbermill owner, and real-estate developer).
Monument to the march dead
Monument to the March Dead is a1920 design produced by Walter Gropius, in collaboration with Fred Forbát, selected from those submitted in a competition organized by the Union Cartel and the Weimar Municipal museum
a building-complex in Dessau-Roßlau. It is considered the pinnacle of pre-war modern design in Europe and originated out of the dissolution of the Weimar School and the move by local politicians to reconcile the city's industrial character with its cultural past.
The schools locations
The school existed in 3 German cities.
This one/the first one in Weimar from 1919 to 1925.
Then in Dessau, the Bauhaus-Building Dessau, from 1925 to 1932.(seen in the previous slide)
Bauhaus in Berlin
Lastly the Bauhaus moved to Berlin briefly in 1933 but it had no chance to reestablish. A rise of the National Socialist Party (Nazis) in Dessau forced the closure of the school in 1932
