Bauhaus

The Topic:

The Bauhaus school was a left-wing counter-culture art and design school in Germany from 1919-1933. The Bauhaus transformed the way that art and craft were viewed forever, and inaugurated a new style that would shape modernity, despite the school's regrettably short existence. (The Bauhaus closed in 1933 under pressure from the Nazi regime.)

Kállai’s critique of the Bauhaus in 1930 in the leftist magazine Die Weltbühne:

“Houses with lots of glass and shining metal: Bauhaus style. The same is true of home hygene without home atmosphere: Bauhaus style. Tubular steel armchair frames: Bauhaus style. Lamp with nickel-coated body and a disk of opaque glass as lampshade: Bauhaus style. Wallpaper patterned in cubes: Bahuaus style. No painting on the wall: Bauhaus style. Incomprehensible painting on the wall: Bauhaus style. Printing with sans-serif letters and bold rules: Bauhaus style. everything written in small letters: bauhaus style. EVERYTHING EXPRESSED IN CAPITAL LETTERS: BAUHAUS STYLE.”

Bibliography

Bauhaus: Workshops for Modernity

From Bauhaus to Our House