How the Bauhaus School Redefined Aesthetics
Discover the groundbreaking Bauhaus school, renowned for its influence in art, design, and architecture. Explore the visionary teachings of Walter Gropius and Johannes Itten, as they shaped a movement that transformed creative disciplines and urban life.
The mythical Bauhaus school was developed from 1919 to 1933; its importance in fields such as art, industrial and graphic design, artistic pedagogy, museography, and architecture is immeasurable. Perhaps the key factor that made a small school with an average of ten to fifteen teachers and two hundred students have the transcendence that is recognized today lies in the sensitivity of the man who devised its realization and who chose the group of characters that would make up its teaching staff; we refer to the architect Walter Gropius (1883–1969).
The vision of this man, in attracting to the city of Weimar—the first site of the school—a group of first-class intellectuals and, at the same time, avant-garde artists, made the ideas, exercises, design resources, and architectural and artistic approaches of the Bauhaus transform not only those fields of human endeavor but also the daily life of the urban being. The first outstanding contribution was undoubtedly the manifesto of the Bauhaus constitution since it outlined the positions that were to govern both the courses and the creative work of students and teachers during their work at the school.
