The Bahaus School

Bauhaus was among the earliest school of design, formed in 1919 at Weimar, German. It was a school that combined all arts craft, architecture, fine art and design, in one roof. The combination of these art branches and the direction of Bauhaus first director had made them the most influential currents in modernist architecture and designs.Bauhaus, however, had a long and uneasy history since the prewar of the First World War. The convulsion of German politic at that time could not guarantee the future of this school to survive. Since 1919 to 1938, Bauhaus had to remove from a city to another because of the political straining.Before the form of Bauhaus, there were two schools of art in Weimar namely Weimar School of Art and Weimar Academy of Fine Arts.

In 1915, at the end of The First World War, the master of Weimar School of Art, Henry van de Valde was instructed to step down from his position as schoolmaster due to his nationality and substituted by Walter Gropius.With the changing of schoolmaster, the school future was directed to a new dimension in art educational. Gropius art philosophy was to unite all arts into one functional object to create a meaningful artwork or design. The unity between the arts had become Bauhaus principle and most of the Bauhaus designs influenced by new abstract geometrical style.