The Bauhaus

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Ideologies
The school had three aims since the beginning that remained basically the same throughout the life of the Bauhaus even though the direction of the school changed considerably. The first aim of the school was to bring art forms together in order for the art to find themselves, to promote the individual art styles and craftsmen to bring their work and skills together as one. Secondly, the school set out to raise the status of crafts, chairs, lamps, teapots, etc. and bring it to the same level as that of artistic products like paintings and sculptures. The third aim was to preserve contact with manufacturing leaders in an attempt to eventually achieve independence from government support by selling their designs to businesses. With these three main goals at its basis the Bauhaus began and influenced our lives immensely.
The Bauhaus is one of the most important Design Movements in the 20th century. This movement took place in Weimar Republic of Germany during the 1920's and the early 1930's. The Weimar Republic is considered one of the birthplaces of the Modern Movement in architecture and design. The Bauhaus was founded by an architect named Walter Gropius.
Gropius came from the Werkbund movement, which sought to integrate art and economics, and to add an element of engineering to art. The Werkbund movement was unable to achieve this integration, but the founding of the Bauhaus saw the solution that had previously been overlooked. The Bauhaus was founded by the combining of the Weimar Art Academy, and the Weimar Arts and Crafts School, which was established by Van De Velde. Students at this new school were trained by both an artist and a master craftsman, realizing the desires of Gropius to make modern artists familiar with science and economics. Modern materials such as plastic and chrome were used in this new era. This began to unite a creative imagination with a practical knowledge of craftsmanship, and thus to...