Art Architecture and Design

The Bauhaus

Walter Gropius designed the academy of fine arts in Weimar with financial support from the provincial government. In 1923 created the necessary connection of art and technology. In Gropius' academy (The Bauhaus) students learned not only architecture but the use of all kinds abilities for art and design. There was no course in ''architecture'' for a while.

   

Erich Mendelsohn

 Erich Mendelsohn was born in Allenstein, East Prussia (now Poland) in 1887. He studied in Berlin and Munich where he became involved with Expressionism. Mendelsohn didn’t take any ideas from anyone else’s work so as a result of this his early building avoided the borrowing of the mark of other peoples work, his ideas were derived from expressionistic sketches and romantic works that he recognised had the qualities that modern buildings should. After this he moved away this form of work and design more linear buildings.

 

 

   

Paul Klee                                                                               

Paul Klee was born in Münchenbuchsee (near Bern) of switzerland into a musical family, his father tought music and in Klee’s early years he wanted to be a musicien but in his teen years he decided on visual art. He studied art in Munich with Heinrich Knirr and Franz von Stuck. 

 

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