1. Bauhaus
Bauhaus was an art school in Germany
that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for
the approach to design that it publicized and taught.
The Bauhaus was first founded by Walter Gropius in 1919.
Its signature modernist style, integrating Expressionist art
with the fields of architecture and design, was enormously
influential throughout the world.
The school was later led by the architect Ludwig Mies van
der Rohe. Its faculty included such artists as Lyonel
Feininger, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Oskar Schlemmer ,
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Anni Albers.
Other artists associated with the Bauhaus include Gunta Stolzl, Lux Feininger,
Wilhelm Wagenfeld and George Grosz.
The school was closed by the Nazis in 1933, and many
of the artists emigrated to the United States in the
years leading up to World War II, in search of
intellectual freedom.
