Day 9

Bauhaus - 14 years, 33 staff, 1250 students

utopian desire

first location-looking for union of art and craft

second location-start designing for industry

third location-just doesn’t work

Most important people of Bauhaus:

Paul Klee

Moholy Nagy

Jahannas Itten

Herbert Bayer

Kandinsky

Mies van der Rohe

Walter Groupus 

Oscar Schlemmer

Joseph Albers

Groupus - first director from 1919  to 1928

solder of WWI

trained as architect

start school to ‘tame’ new technology

manifesto on wood print of cathedral

allegory for total work of art

painting

sculpture

architecture

Council of Masters

Garhard Marks

sculpture/pottery shop

Lyonel Feringer

painting

Johannes Itten

preliminary courses

Itten

creator of foundation classes at colleges

tries to reaes each person’s individual ability

was very religious

believed in understanding material fully

Moholy Nagy - Hungarian constructionist

experiments with lots of theories

Itten’s replacement

experiments with type and illustration

looks to unify type and photo

creates type-o-photo

photo plastects- photo colleagues

Herbert Bayer - gives un universal alphabet with no capitals

Van der Role - 3rd president of the school

attempts to hold out in Berlin but closes 8, 1933

time line

type-o-photo

photo gram

photo plastec

Jan Tschichold - hand lettered ad for fair

studied callegraphy

goes to Bauhaus expo at 22

write paper exploring new type

writes book about new type

the aim of every typographic work to be the delivery of a message in the shortest most efficient manner

harassed by Nazi

arrested for book

released after 6 weeks

leaves country

Thoughts

The class really is changing it’s mood. We are concentrating so much on the people now, only glancing at events - it’s odd. 

I’m glad that we now have a projector that works. For a while we just talked about the movie we watched last class. Everyone was saying how much they were upset by it, how some even cried! Personally, I found it a bit boring. The acting was boring and I didn’t really care for the characters so it was hard to connect.

Test next week.