When and where was the art movement Bauhaus started?
And it wasn’t so much a movement as a seminal art and architecture school. It was created in the city of Weimar, Germany, soon after World War I. It had a great influence on Modernism and the International Movement (which is an art movement.) It was one of those rare extraordinary assemblage of talent, ideas, and resources that created work that seems fresh and original now, almost 100 years later. Much of the furniture, design and architecture that we associate with the 50’s and 60’s were just knock-offs of the Bauhaus designs from 40 years earlier. Their extraordinary faculty included Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Mies van der Rohe, Oskar Schlemmer, László Moholy-Nagy, Josef Albers and Piet Mondrian. Here is a design by Breuer from 1925, named “Wassily” after Kandinsky. It is one of the first pieces of furniture to use the then new material, chrome-plated steel tubing. It is characteristically Bauhaus in its responding to industrial techniques of constr
