Bauhaus

English 2018 May 18 Etymology vertical Versuchsiedlung Schorlemerallee Berlin Bauhaus-Stil Stahlskelettbau Luckhardt Anker IMG 9061.JPG The Doppelwohnhaus (double dwelling house) “Fritz Lang–Thea von Harbou” in Berlin, Germany. Designed in the Bauhaus style, it was completed in 1929. Marcel Breuer - Armchair - 1936 - Boijmans V 2486 (KN&V).jpg The Isokon Long Chair, a Bauhaus-style armchair designed by Marcel Breuer in 1935–1936 and manufactured by the Isokon company.From the collection of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Borrowed from en de Bauhaus house of architecture, from de Bau building, construction + de Haus house. The word is derived from the Staatliches Bauhaus (State School of Construction), an art school in Weimar, Germany, founded in 1919 by German architect Walter Gropius (1883–1969). Pronunciation en /ˈbaʊhaʊs/ RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Bauhaus.wav Southern England en /ˈbaʊˌhaʊs/ GA en Bau haus Proper noun en architecture design also attributively A modernist style characterized by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of a building or an object and its design. en 50 Years Bauhaus: German Exhibition; Royal Academy of Arts, September 21 – October 27 1968 Stuttgart Württembergischer Kunstverein; Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1968 26 886374191 [J]une 22 unanimous approval of the projected bauhaus building, the first of the bauhaus books appears. en Barbara Ann Henriksen The Bauhaus and American Art Education unpublished M.A. dissertation Madison, Wis. w:University of Wisconsin 1974 17 53789666 Not until the 1930's was the American public aware of the significance of the Bauhaus. Several factors contributed to this: American Bauhaus students were returning from Germany; Bauhaus design, as tubular steel chairs and lighting fixtures, were being imported from Germany; en Alan Bartram Bauhaus, Modernism and the Illustrated Book London w:British Library 2004 49 2 978-0-7123-4790-7 While the direct impact of the iconoclastic Bauhaus typography on bookwork is limited, its indirect influence, encouraging designers such as Jan Tschichold to re-examine the whole tradition of typography and its relationship to twentieth-century life, is difficult to overestimate. en Exhibition in focus: Bauhaus: Art as Life, Barbican Art Gallery https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/england/london/articles/Exhibition-in-focus-Bauhaus-Art-as-Life-Barbican-Art-Gallery/ w:The Daily Telegraph London 3 May 2012 The Bauhaus has long been celebrated as the most influential art school of the twentieth century. The word Bauhaus means many things to many people: some are inspired by so-called ‘Bauhaus style’ – from tubular-steel furniture to the strict geometry of primary-coloured triangles, circles and squares; others worship its position as one of the greatest emblems of the Modern movement’s ambitious desire to change the world. en Michael Faulhaber; David Rising Ice Age Art, Bauhaus Buildings Highlight German UNESCO Hopes https://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2017-07-03/ice-age-art-bauhaus-buildings-highlight-german-unesco-hopes https://web.archive.org/web/20260921134418/https://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2017-07-03/ice-age-art-bauhaus-buildings-highlight-german-unesco-hopes 21 September 2026 w:U.S. News & World Report [Washington, D.C.] 3 July 2017 Two sites with cultural treasures separated by more than 40,000 years – caves with art dating to the Ice Age and buildings designed by a Bauhaus master less than 100 years ago – highlight Germany's submissions for the prestigious World Heritage Site designation by the U.N.'s cultural agency, UNESCO. The Bauhaus buildings in northeastern Germany were designed by the school's second director, Hannes Meyer. Derived terms en Bauhausian Translations modernist style Arabic: ar باوهاوس Armenian: hy Բաուհաուզ Azerbaijani: az Bauhauz Bengali: bn বাউহাউস Bulgarian: bg Баухаус Chinese: Cantonese: yue 包浩斯 Mandarin: cmn 包豪斯 Bāoháosī Chuvash: cv Баухауз Georgian: ka ბაუჰაუზი German: de Bauhaus n Greek: el Μπάουχαους n Hebrew: he באוהאוס Hindi: hi बौहाउस Japanese: ja バウハウス Korean: ko 바우하우스 Kyrgyz: ky Баухауз Macedonian: mk Баухаус Malayalam: ml ബവ്ഹൗസ് Persian: fa باوهاوس Punjabi: Western Punjabi: pnb باؤہاؤس Russian: ru Баухаус Serbo-Croatian: sh Bauhaus m, sh Баухаус m Thai: th เบาเฮาส์ Ukrainian: uk Ба́угауз References Further reading German de: Etymology de :af bauen<t:to build> Haus<t:house> From de bauen to build Haus house. Pronunciation de De-Bauhaus.ogg Proper noun n de architecture design Bauhaus