Word: bauhaus
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...steps off her pedestal to embrace everyman, she becomes a daily social concern. When the problems of art and design are looked at as the problems of everyman, they become the problems of family, government, education, and all social institutions. The late Walter Gropius, founder and head of the Bauhaus (1919-33)--the famous German design school--put art in such a position: art became intimate with the present, and took up the humanist torch to serve man and society. After fleeing from Nazi Germany, Gropius furthered this ideal as Chairman of the Department of Architecture at Harvard from...
...painter-teacher Oskar Schlemmer hints at the German school's uniqueness: "The actual structure of the Bauhaus finds expression in its leader and is not restricted to any dogma, with an awareness of all that is now and topical in the world and with good motives for assimilating it...Hence the battle of minds, in the open or in secret, as perhaps nowhere else, a constant unrest, compelling the individual almost daily to take a stand on profound problems...
...during the past five years by constant feuding between faculty, students and administrators. There was a time in the mid-1950s when the Design School was regarded as the top school of design and urban planning in the country. In that era--when Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus, brought his genius to the GSD first as dean and later as professor emeritus--its attraction both to students and faculty was unparalleled. No more, Today, the GSD is flatly a second-rate school of design. MIT, Berkeley and perhaps one or two others, have become the leaders in planning...
...show illustrates the course of study of this 14-year institution, started by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919. To separate any Bauhaus exhibit into class divisions is misleading since a primary doctrine was to unite the crafts with the fine arts and to fuse these two into a third and ultimate structure-the building. Thus resulted buildings like Harvard's Harkness Commons with a mural of colored tile by Herbert Bayer, a brick relief by Josef Albers, the textiles by his wife Anni Albers, and the architecture by Gropius...
...shaved their heads and dressed as monks, or Oskar Schlemmer's stage sets and ballets. Yet the imagination of Klee works, or even of a doll-house like representation of a Metal Exhibit (Joost Schmidt 1934) complete with boat propellers and model airplanes, shows the creative richness of the Bauhaus that encouraged a tradition in education as well as art. The Bauhaus brought art off its pedestal and seduced even the common Pygmalion; the Busch should bring such attractive nuisances up from the basement more often...