bauhaus | French edition

Between two world wars, in just 14 years, the Bauhaus changed modernity. The school for art and design, guided by utopian ideals, brought together art, craft, and technology and applied this holistic concept to painting, sculpture, design, architecture, film, photography, textile design, pottery, theater, and installations. The artist collective with external impact was also a close personal community. The school was founded by Walter Gropius (1883-1969), and members included Josef and Anni Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Gunta Stölzl, Marianne Brandt, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. At all three successive locations of the school in Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin, there was a lively creative exchange between students and teachers...