What’s on the Bauhaus poster
A definition and 6 facts worth remembering.
A German school of art, craft and design, 1919 to 1933, founded by Walter Gropius to reunite fine art with manufacture after Arts and Crafts had refused the machine.
- Weimar 1919, Dessau 1925, Berlin 1932, closed 1933.
- Directors: Gropius, Hannes Meyer, Mies van der Rohe.
- Vorkurs: a preliminary course in material and form.
- Albers, Itten, Klee, Kandinsky and Moholy-Nagy taught.
- The weaving workshop: Stölzl, Albers, Otti Berger.
- Women were steered into weaving, not architecture.
- Years — 1919 to 1933
- Cities — Weimar, Dessau, Berlin
- The foundation year in most art schools is a direct descendant of the Bauhaus Vorkurs.
The Bauhaus was a school for fourteen years and a style for a century. The style is a later simplification of the teaching.
Questions about the Bauhaus poster
- What’s on the Bauhaus poster?
- A definition and 6 facts worth remembering. A German school of art, craft and design, 1919 to 1933, founded by Walter Gropius to reunite fine art with manufacture after Arts and Crafts had refused the machine. Weimar 1919, Dessau 1925, Berlin 1932, closed 1933.; Directors: Gropius, Hannes Meyer, Mies van der Rohe.; Vorkurs: a preliminary course in material and form.; Albers, Itten, Klee, Kandinsky and Moholy-Nagy taught.; The weaving workshop: Stölzl, Albers, Otti Berger.; Women were steered into weaving, not architecture.; Years — 1919 to 1933; Cities — Weimar, Dessau, Berlin; The foundation year in most art schools is a direct descendant of the Bauhaus Vorkurs.. The Bauhaus was a school for fourteen years and a style for a century. The style is a later simplification of the teaching.
- Who is the Bauhaus poster for?
- Bauhaus belongs to the Art & Design section rather than to a school year, because design is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning art history can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Bauhaus poster?
- Use it to understand why your first year is a foundation course. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Bauhaus belongs on the wall where that design work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Bauhaus?
- Abstract Expressionism, Arts & Crafts and Constructivism sit alongside Bauhaus in the Art & Design section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Abstract ExpressionismArts & CraftsConstructivism
- Is the Bauhaus poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Bauhaus downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Art & Design section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Bauhaus poster print at?
- Bauhaus is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Bauhaus loses nothing.Printing guide
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