The Bauhaus was founded in1919 in Germany within the city of Weimar. It was founded by Walter Gropius. The main objects of Bauhaus was radical concept, to reflect the unity of the arts by reimagining the material world. The Bauhaus was a combination of crafts and arts from a range of disciplines from painting, sculpture, metal work, pottery, textiles, architecture, product design, graphic design & typography. It was a concept was seen as something completely new back in the early 20th century. The movement existed from 1919 to 1933 due to the elected Nazi party shutting down the school. Today the world considers it to be the hub of avant-guard of modern style and aesthetics in all fields of art and design. The movement can still be visible in today in the Swedish furniture store IKEA.
Walter Gropius saw the school as a 'building of the future' that combined every discipline in the arts and crafts as the Bauhaus motte expressed " Let us strive for, conceive and create the new building of the future that will unite every discipline, architecture and sculpture and painting, and which will one day rise heavenwards from the million hands of craftsmen as a clear symbol of a new belief to come."
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