Bauhaus- 1919- 1933, Marcel Breuer

Bauhaus- 1919- 1933

The Bauhaus was a school which was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in Germany in the year of the 1919. In this school it was being approached the design and also the combination of the fine arts and also arts and crafts which were major by the major of the influence on the development of the graphic design even in the twentieth century as the modern art. The school was also moved to Dessau in the 1924 but it was forced to close the doors from the Nazi political party in the 1933.

Along with the artist who his name is Gropius and many other artist and also teachers which are Lazlo Moholy-Nagy and Herbert Bayer which made significant contributes on the development of the graphic design. The Bauhaus thought that the typography is a part of the curriculum and also was an instrumental in the development of sans-serif typography. These were the favored from all the simplified geometric forms and also alternative to the heavily ornate in German standard of the black letter typography.

Some artists that we can find that had worked in the Bauhaus and worked more in product designs were Marcel Breuer which is a famous designer and also Wilhelm Wagenfeld.

We can see that the Bauhaus is not only got inspired on the products but Bauhaus was also inspired by architects it is because we find a lot of buildings that are inspired from the Bauhaus. We can also see that the text we find on the building are also with the style of the Bauhaus. 

Wilhelm Wagenfeld table lamp - the Bauhaus lamp               Typography by Herbert Bayer

                                          The Bauhaus Dessau

Marcel Breuer

One of the most famous artists is Marcel Breuer where he was born in Hungary in the 1902.  Marcel Breuer was an architect and also used to do furniture designs where in the 20^th century he became the greatest one. He  also  used  to use  new  material  and  also new  technologies which  these will  develop  his  International Style of the work. He first studied in Vienna where he started to study the art after he won a scholarship. He wasn’t happy with the institute then he decided to find a work at a Vienese architecture office. He also was a student and also he was a teacher and these happened in 1920 to 1928 in the Germany’s Bauhaus which was a school of design. While he was there he completed the carpentry apprenticeship where he managed to design and also made the African Chair and also the Slatted Chair.

                                                    Slatted Chair.

This is the Slatted chair that it is designed by Marcel Breuer where this particular chair is made out of stained maple and the back and also the seat were made from the horse hair. For this particular design he was inspired by the work of Gerrit Rietveld who he exhibited his furniture in the Bauhaus in the 1921.

When he completed studying in the Bauhaus he traveled to Paris where he had  the chance  to  work  in an architect office, where then he became  the  head of  the  carpentry workshop  which  had to  do  with the  Bauhaus. He also was given a title which was ‘young master’.

He also helped to develop  the modular  of  the  unit  construction  which  this combines  the  standardized units to  the  forms  which  it  was  simple  but  functional. Every designer gets inspired  from something where Breuer was  inspired from the shapes and also  the  forms which these  shapes  nd forms  are  inspired  from  a bicycle handlebar, where we can see an piece  that he did  that  it  is  the  Wassily Chair which  was  done  in the 1925. Actually this design was designer and named for Wassily Kandinsky.  

                                                         Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer

Here we can see  another  design and  work  that  Marcel  Breuer  done  which  it  is  called  the Wassily Chair, where  this  chair  was  made  from polished , bent , nickelled tubular steel which it later became chrome plated. The seat of this particular chair was made out of canvas, fabric or leather in black.  This particular chair has also been copied by other designers.

Comments: I really  like  the  fact  that  the  materials  that  he use  are  mostly  materials  that  we don’t  think  in  using them. In the ergonomics  fact  I  find  it  that  this  particular  chair  is  comfortable  to sit and  it’s  design  and shape  looks  like  modern and  can use  it in various  occasions.

                                          Wassily Chair

He  we  can  see  a  copy  of the  work  of  Marcel  Breure  which  this  chair  which  it  is  named  the  same  as  the  chair  of  Breuer  was  designed  from  Alessandro Mendini

Bauhaus

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Wilhelm Wagenfeld Table lamp - the Bauhaus lamp. 2015. Wilhelm Wagenfeld Table lamp - the Bauhaus lamp. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.tecnolumen.com/12/Wilhelm-Wagenfeld-Table-lamp.htm. [Accessed 25 January 2015].

Marcel Breuer

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 Alessandro Mendini Wassily chair – Transformation | Alexia's Blog . 2015.Alessandro Mendini Wassily chair – Transformation | Alexia's Blog . [ONLINE] Available at: http://alexiamuscat.blogspot.com/2012/11/alessandro-mendini-wassily-chair.html. [Accessed 27 January 2015].