Bauhaus is a
school of art, design and architecture, founded in Germany by architect Walter
Gropius in 1919 when the school “les Beaux Arts” and “les Arts décoratifs”
The goal of
this movement is to remove all the details from the art and crafts and bring out
the creation specifically useful.
The Bauhaus is
the symbol of renewed vitality, just eight years after the disasters of the
First World War.
Josef Albers and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy were two of the most famous artist of the Modernism during the 20th century. They opened an exhibition: “From Bauhaus to the new World” that pointed out their conversion to abstraction. The exhibition highlights the creative explosion of Bauhaus and the evolution of modernism.
The exhibition
gathered more than 200 works as paintings, sculptures, photography, movies and
design. There are lots of photography from Moholy-Nagy, famous ones, and
unknown ones too. There was also some test presented with new materials as
rhodoïd or aluminium.
Both Albers and
Moholy-Nagy were teachers at the Bauhaus; they had the same reflexions, like
the importance of the experimentation, the limits of different forms of art.
The exhibitions
starts right after the First World War, and both of the artists stops the
abstraction approach to focus more on their engagement in Bauhaus, the centre
of modernism in Weimar’s Germany. They want to improve their way of working
with new materials, new industrial process of creation.
The second part
of the exposition is about the evolution after they left for the United States.
Albers teaches at Black Mountain College then at Yale while Moholy-Nagy tries
to relive the Bauhaus experience in the New Bauhaus of Chicago. He creates his
own school, the school of design, that became The Institute of Design in the
future.
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