Oscar Barnack (1879 – 1936) and the first 35mm camera
2022-01-11
The Leica 1, the first functional 35 mm camera, was introduced in Germany in 1925, making photography much more accessible to the general public.Read More →
Hermann Gretsch (1895 – 1950) designer for Arzberg
2021-11-29
Hermann Gretsch was a German architect, engineer and product designer. In the 1930s, Gretsch worked for the Porzellanfabrik Arzberg.Read More →
Herbert Bayer (1900 – 1985) – Universal Typeface – Bauhaus Master
2021-11-29
The universal typeface, 1925, was a geometric alphabet based on bar and circle and was designed by Herbert Bayer (1900) to function efficiently in a technological society. Bayer rejected the “archaic and complicated gothic alphabet” which lingered in the most scientifically advanced society of its time, Germany of the first world war period and the postwar era. Read More →
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 โ 1969) German architect and designer
2021-11-13
Between 1905 and 1907, he worked as an apprentice to architect and furniture designer Bruno Paul in Berlin, where he studied wooden furniture design. He created furniture for all of his early homes, including the Werner residence.Read More →
Josef Albers (1888 – 1976) – German painter, designer, theoretician, and teacher
2021-11-07
Josef Albers believed Art, he felt, is seeing, and he believed that his contemporaries had not done a good job of this.Read More →
Marianne Brandt (1893โ1983) German painter designer and metalworker
2021-11-02
The modernist German designer Marianne Brandt was one of the few women associated with the Bauhaus to make her reputation outside the traditional arts and crafts sectors related to women such as textiles, weaving and pottery. Read More →
A Century of Women Designers Who Helped Shape Our Lives
2021-11-02
Brandt is one of over 200 women product designers from more than 50 countries featured in Woman Made: Great Women Designers (Phaidon) by Jane Hall. The authorโs wide lens covers the stories of iconic trailblazers and now-forgotten figures alike, and each designer is presented with one of their seminal works accompanied by a short text about their career and life.Read More →
The Bauhaus school of design inspires the shapes of these vases!
2021-11-01
Finding the perfect vase for flowers is sometimes the most fun when arranging bouquets. Bunchier flowers deserve a bulkier, more bulbous vase. While more delicate flower arrangements could use a skinny, minimalist vase. You know the right vase when you see it.Read More →
S533 Cantilever Chair timeless elegance
2021-10-25
Technology is transformed into furniture, and an eye-catching invention is transformed into a beautiful interior design product. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was the first to give the cantilever chair a light aesthetic and use curved lines to tie it to its surroundings.Read More →
Walter Gropius, Lighting fixture in the Directorโs office ๐ก
2021-10-02
It was a lighting fixture of tubular bulbs wired through thin aluminium tubes.ย These lights were part of the interior decoration of the Bauhaus Building.Read More →
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895 – 1946) Hungarian Designer – Applied Arts
2021-09-18
In Budapest, he studied law, while elsewhere, he studied sketching and painting. During World War I, he began drawing and became interested in Kasimir Malevich and El Lissitzky. Read More →
End of WWII a revolution in furniture design
2021-08-29
End of WWII a revolution in furniture design. Womb and shell chairs, biomorphic tables, cat’s cradle pedestals, and architectural shapes are reminiscent of the Second World War’s fertile furniture design era.Read More →
Deutscher Werkbund German artistic and production association
2021-06-23
The organisation, Deutscher Werkund was founded in Munich (1907) to improve products’ design through the joint efforts of artists, craftsmen, and manufacturers: its leading lights were Behrens, Theodor Fischer, Hermann Muthesius and Fritz Schumacher.Read More →
Herbert Bayer (1900 – 1985) American painter, photographer, architect, designer and sculptor
2021-06-12
Herbert Bayer was an American; painter, photographer, architect, designer, and sculptor. His unspecialised approach to art and design reflected his Bauhaus training emphasizing basic principles of visual communication. He emerged as a veritable one-person band of modernism, able to address problems of form in practically any medium. Read More →
Abstract Geometric Bauhaus Prints
2021-06-10
When you purchase this item, you get all four prints shown in the main photo. All of our prints are created by a process called Giclรฉe (a French word for โsprayโ). Read More →
Walter Gropius Bauhaus Artwork T-Shirt (Short and Long-Sleeve)
2021-06-10
This lovely tee is inspired by the work of the German architect Walter Gropius. He founded the Bauhaus School and, 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.Read More →
Walter Gropius (1883 – 1969) is the history of modern architecture
2021-06-10
Walter Gropius (1883 – 1969) was an architect born in Germany in the early twentieth century who contributed to the founding of the Bauhaus School. He lived in the United States after 1937 and taught at Harvard University, where he continued to defend the principles of Bauhaus, especially the use of functional materials and clean geometric designs.Read More →
Friedl Dicker (1899 – 1944) Austrian architect and furniture, interior, and textile designer
2021-05-11
Friedl Dicker was an Austrian architect and furniture, interior, and textile designer, she was born in Vienna. Read More →
The Women of the Bauhaus School – Artsy
2021-02-26
The male icons of the Bauhausโlike Klee and Albersโare world-renowned. But the women artists who taught, studied, and made groundbreaking work with them are often remembered in history books as wives of their male counterparts or, worse, not at all.Read More →
Josef Pohl (1894 – 1975) Czech lighting designer
2021-02-25
Josef Pohl (1894 – 1975) was a Czech lighting designer. He designed the 1929 precursor of the adjustable lamp. Gerd Balzer produced his model. As part of its Kamden collection, Korting und Mathieson created a similar lamp. Pohl and others at the Bauhaus also executed the prototype adjustable wall lamp illustrated in Staaliches Bauhaus, Weimar and produced by Jucker. In 1932, Balzer and Pohl were given the task of coordinating Bauhaus students’ work, which culminated in a competition for conference and furniture design.Read More →