How Did The Bauhaus Change The World

The Bauhaus was a German Art school that operated in 1919 through to 1933 created by Walter Gropius. There was many positive aims to the creation of his school of fine arts and crafts of different sorts, Gropius believed that “Architects, painters, sculptors, we must return to crafts! For there is no such thing as ‘professional art’. (Walter Gropius,1919). The Bauhaus focused on two things mainly, one being the coming together of all creative people and secondly a dream of creating a school that could change the world.

The Bauhaus was evolutionary. It became one of the most influential modern art school of the 20th century as Gropius focused on bringing all creative people together in one school with a different teaching way then there was at the time as they centered their interest in understanding art’s relationship to the world’s society at the time along with technology. This caused the school to achieve something different to any other art school as The Bauhaus invented the modern art student as Walter Gropius states in the manifesto ‘The old art schools were unable to produce this unity’ so he made it his goal to make the Bauhaus different to the rest by having many different artists as teachers
In 1925 Gropius closed his partnership with meyer and moved The Bauhaus to Dessau which was a two-hour train ride out of berlin, this showed the school In a whole new way as it’s structures were made out of steel and glass facades, with this people on the outside could see one in their private life or one a work learning in a class room. The Bauhaus movement focused on teaching the truth to materials meaning that they should be used in their honest and raw