Walter Gropius Bauhaus Arte
The walter gropius master artist program named for renowned bauhaus architect walter gropius who designed and oversaw the construction of the 1970 addition to huntington museum of art hma the walter gropius master artist program celebrates the spirit of the bauhaus by allowing students to learn from established professionals in a workshop.
Walter gropius bauhaus arte. Video about the campus of bauhaus school in dessau a work of architect walter gropius. Walter adolph georg gropius 18 may 1883 5 july 1969 was a german architect and founder of the bauhaus school who along with alvar aalto ludwig mies van der rohe le corbusier and frank lloyd wright is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture he is a founder of bauhaus in weimar 1919. As we continue our series exploring the school s centenary we profile the man who had a vision to make art accessible to the masses. Summary of walter gropius.
Walter gropius was an american german architect and designer known for found the bauhaus school his theories and teaching legacy made a lasting impact on modernist architecture s relationship to society. Architecture art and design 100 years of the bauhaus 3 3 dw documentary duration. In his choice of materials and design gropius developed ideas first fostered in the fagus factory in saxony and the buildings all utilize new industrial materials such as. He was a bauhaus impresario in the best possible sense a combination of speaker and entrepreneur a visionary manager who aimed to make art a social concern during the post war upheaval.
The school was founded by walter gropius in weimar on 1 april 1919 as a merger of the weimar saxon grand ducal art school and the weimar academy of fine art. Its roots lay in the arts and crafts school founded by the grand duke of saxe weimar eisenach in 1906 and directed by belgian art nouveau architect henry van de velde. Walter gropius was the founder of the bauhaus and remained committed to the institution that he invested in throughout his life. German architect walter gropius founded the bauhaus in 1919.
The bauhaus relocation from weimar to the industrial city of dessau provided gropius with a blank site on which to build a campus that embodied the principles of the school. The nephew of famed architect martin gropius walter gropius emerged from world war i seeking to reinvent society through the advent of a new kind of architecture and design which he pursued as a founder of the bauhaus school with the bauhaus gropius articulated a vision of arts education and modernity that was democratic utilitarian and which called for a unification of art and technology.