Bauhaus

Bauhaus was a school of design, architecture, and applied arts that existed in Germany from 1919 to 1933. It was based in Weimar until 1925, Dessau through 1932, and Berlin in its final months. The Bauhaus was founded by the architect Walter Gropius, who combined two schools, the Weimar Academy of Arts and the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts, into what he called the Bauhaus.

The Bauhaus art movement was more of a lifestyle than a school, Bauhaus was based on the static rules of Art Deco. One of the main idea of the Bauhaus movement was to remove everything unnecessarily and break a design down to its essential elements.

From my observement looking at the Bauhaus graphics work Bauhaus shares elements with Russia’s constructiveness movement in its simplicity and boldness. The geometrical shapes look almost like road maps.