Saluting the Museum of Modern Art’s 1938 exhibition, “Bauhaus 1919 – 1928”, the editors of ART DIGEST published this one page article for it’s American readers explaining what the art school was, why it closed and what was in the mind of the school’s founder, architect Walter Gropius (1883 – 1969):
“The Bauhaus program proceeded to teach students manual dexterity, in all the crafts, to investigate the laws of the physical world, to plumb the spiritual world, and to master the machine. Out of the Bauhaus came the first experiments in tubular furniture, in modern typography, in modern lighting, and many significant developments in architecture, photography, abstract art, textile and other crafts.”
Click here to read unfavorable criticism about the Bauhaus exhibit.
