During the 1920's the Abstractionists, the German Bauhaus group of industrial designers, and the new architects all had the dream of some well ordered utopia, or welfare state, in which their neat and logical constructions might find their proper place.

His experimental method had been influenced by his meetings with various members of the Bauhaus design school, especially László Moholy-Nagy, whom he first met in 1930.

However, the most important influence on Bauhaus was modernism, a cultural movement whose origins lay as far back as the 1880s, and which had already made its presence felt in Germany before the World War, despite the prevailing conservatism.

The Bauhaus was founded at a time when the German zeitgeist had turned from emotional Expressionism to the matter-of-fact New Objectivity.

Although neither the Nazi Party nor Hitler himself had a cohesive architectural policy before they came to power in 1933, Nazi writers like Wilhelm Frick and Alfred Rosenberg had already labeled the Bauhaus " un-German " and criticized its modernist styles, deliberately generating public controversy over issues like flat roofs.

Even before the Nazis came to power, political pressure on Bauhaus had increased.

" Despite Gropius's protestations that as a war veteran and a patriot his work had no subversive political intent, the Berlin Bauhaus was pressured to close in April 1933.

The Bauhaus had a major impact on art and architecture trends in Western Europe, the United States, Canada and Israel in the decades following its demise, as many of the artists involved fled, or were exiled, by the Nazi regime.

In 1979, the Gothic term was later applied to " newer bands such as Bauhaus who had arrived in the wake of Joy Division and Siouxsie and the Banshees ".

At the center were members of the Bauhaus, a European architectural movement that had advanced the cause of modernist design.

The Nazi regime had condemned the Bauhaus school, and its leaders left Germany.

Both enjoyed greater commercial success in the United States than Bauhaus had, but disappeared from the charts in their homeland.

Daniel Ash had already started Tones on Tail with Bauhaus roadie Glen Campling as a side-project in 1981 ; after Bauhaus broke up Kevin Haskins joined the group, which released an album and several EPs before breaking up following a 1984 American tour.

After Bayer had studied for four years at the Bauhaus under such teachers as Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and László Moholy-Nagy, Gropius appointed Bayer director of printing and advertising.

Tschichold had converted to Modernist design principles in 1923 after visiting the first Weimar Bauhaus exhibition.

While studying at the Bauhaus, Moholy ’ s teaching in diverse media — including painting, sculpture, photography, photomontage and metal — had a profound influence on a number of his students, including Marianne Brandt.

This conference had been organised by Asger Jorn and Pinot-Gallizio of the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus ( IMIB ), and important links between the two groups were consolidated.

The artist reworked City, a sandblasted glass construction that he had designed in 1929 at the Bauhaus, and renamed it Manhattan.

Their liaison ended after six months when Max Bill's plan to marry her in order to avoid her pending extradition from Switzerland was vetoed by the father ( whom Max Bill at the time owed a substantial amount of money due to the expensive medical cures required after the accident that had forced him to leave the Bauhaus ).

In 1953, Loy moved to Aspen, Colorado, where her daughters Joella and Fabienne were already living ; Joella, who had been married to the art dealer of Surrealism in New York, Julien Levy, next married the Bauhaus artist and typographer Herbert Bayer.

The Suprematist style of pure, geometric abstraction had developed in Russia and was introduced into the famous Bauhaus Design School in Dessau in the 192os.

As well, the corporation insisted that builders use company-approved architects who had been educated according to Bauhaus principles, to prevent the project from deteriorating into a typical post-war subdivision of builder's homes.

Other artists identified as an influence on the genre include Tim Buckley, The Cure, This Mortal Coil, Sonic Youth, the Cocteau Twins, Hüsker Dü, Spacemen 3, The Chameleons, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Galaxie 500 and Spiritualized.

The works of De Stijl would influence the Bauhaus style and the international style of architecture as well as clothing and interior design.

He moved to Weimar in 1922, deciding to make an impression on the Bauhaus principal, Walter Gropius, in order to spread the influence of the movement.

They drew their influence from European movements like Expressionism and the Bauhaus and helped pave the way towards the introduction of the International Style of Modernism.

Through the unity of simplicity, mobility and functionality the Biedermeier Neoclassical architecture created tendencies of crucial influence for the Jugendstil — Art Nouveau, the Bauhaus, and the 20th century architecture.

In A Concrete Atlantis: U. S. Industrial Building and European Modern Architecture, 1900-1925 ( 1986 ) Banham demonstrates the influence of American grain elevators and " Daylight " factories on the Bauhaus and other modernist projects in Europe.

In 1905 he was called upon by the Grand Duke of Weimar to establish the Grand-Ducal School of Arts and Crafts in Weimar, the predecessor of the Bauhaus, which, following World War I, eventually replaced the School of Arts and Crafts, under new director Walter Gropius, who was suggested for the position by Van de Velde.

In the course of such discussions, they drew upon Futurist, Surrealist, the Bauhaus, and Dada concepts.

Along with Schlemmer's diary, his private letters to Otto Meyer and Willi Baumeister have given valuable insight on what happened at the Bauhaus ; especially his writings of how the staff and students responded to the many changes and developments at the school.

Vkhutemas, the Russian state art and technical school founded in 1920 in Moscow, has been compared to Bauhaus.

The Nazi movement, from nearly the start, denounced the Bauhaus for its " degenerate art ", and the Nazi regime was determined to crack down on what it saw as the foreign, probably Jewish influences of " cosmopolitan modernism.

Some people credit the band Bauhaus ' first single " Bela Lugosi's Dead ", released August 1979, with the start of the goth subculture, though many prior art house movements influenced gothic fashion and style, the illustrations and paintings of Swiss artist, H. R. Giger being one of the earliest.

Some members of Bauhaus were, themselves, fine art students or active artists.

By the early 1960s minimalism emerged as an abstract movement in art ( with roots in geometric abstraction of Kazimir Malevich, the Bauhaus and Piet Mondrian ) that rejected the idea of relational and subjective painting, the complexity of abstract expressionist surfaces, and the emotional zeitgeist and polemics present in the arena of action painting.

Its members also belonged to other art movements and groups during the Weimar Republic era, such as architect Walter Gropius ( founder of Bauhaus ), and Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht ( agitprop theatre ).

His lectures on modern art ( now known as the Paul Klee Notebooks ) at the Bauhaus have been compared for importance to Leonardo's Treatise on Painting and Newton's Principia Mathematica, constituting the Principia Aesthetica of a new era of art ;

There, he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933.

Note: Several sections of this article have been translated from its French version: Theoretical writings on art, The Bauhaus and The great synthesis artistic periods.

Papers document Kandinsky's teachings at the Bauhaus, his writings, his involvement with the Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences ( RAKhN ) in Moscow, and his professional contacts with art dealers, artists, collectors, and publishers.

The Bauhaus University and the Liszt School of Music Weimar, attracted many students, specializing in art, media and design, architecture, civil engineering and music.

The band chose the name Bauhaus 1919, a reference to the German Bauhaus art movement of the 1920s, because of its " stylistic implications and associations ", according to David J.

She studied art at Bauhaus in Dessau, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and the University of Munich, and afterwards worked in advertising.

Herbert Bayer ( April 5, 1900 – September 30, 1985 ) was an Austrian American graphic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, art director, environmental & interior designer, and architect, who was widely recognized as the last living member of the Bauhaus and was instrumental in the development of the Atlantic Richfield Company's corporate art collection until his death in 1985.

In 1928, Bayer left the Bauhaus to become art director of Vogue magazine's Berlin office.

He and his colleague, the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the German Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture.

Tones on Tail was a musical side project of Daniel Ash of the gothic rock group Bauhaus, along with art school friend, flatmate and " Bauhaus roadie " Glenn Campling in 1982.

Op art is derived from the constructivist practices of the Bauhaus.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, however, produced photographic op art and taught the subject in the Bauhaus.