Bauhaus: art and everyday life
The workshop becomes a meeting point between art, craft and design.
Key ideas
The Bauhaus combined training in working with materials and the search for new forms of subject matter. Students studied color, composition and properties of materials, then worked in workshops. Programs and priorities changed: the school was not a single formula of geometric style.
Looking deeper
Look at an object as a solution to a problem: how is it structured, how does it come into contact with the body, can it be reproduced? Distinguish between experimental sample and mass product. Convenience and accessibility should be verified by design and production history, and not inferred from simple appearance.
Marcel Breuer, chair made of steel pipes; Bauhaus building in Dessau by Walter Gropius.
Find the work in the museum's official catalog and start with a description of the visible details.Draw a diagram of a familiar chair and label the three relationships between material, design, and use.
External educational material or museum catalogue. The above review is not a literal translation of the source.