Art & Bauhaus
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Bauhaus was a school of design established in the late 1910s by Walter Gropius in the German city of Weimar. It remained active for nearly one and half decades until its closure in 1933, teaching a fusion of crafts and fine arts. It is best known for its modernist approach to teaching educational arts, which blurred the cliché line between the so-called applied arts and fine arts.
In essence, the Staatliches Bauhaus rewrote the relationship between design, art, and industrial manufacturing. According to Gropius, the school was established to birth a new architectural style that marries painting, sculptural art, and architecture into one form.
Otti Berger is a respected name in the corridors of art history. The esteemed textile artist and weaver studied and later taught at the Bauhaus when it was still at the height of popularity in Germany. Born in present-day Croatia, Berger was one of the few female students and educators at the Bauhaus, managing to […]
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Anni Albers was a well known German textile artist and prominent printmaker. She is perhaps one of the most well-known print artists of the 20th century. Albers dared to go where no textile designer had gone before, which in part helped to launch her designs into popularity. Born in Berlin, Albers became a student of
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Model Home – A Proposition by Michael Lin was an exhibition of new conceptual work, made by Michael Lin. For the exhibition, he installed a temporary structure on top of the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, China. The exhibition has been created in collaboration with building workers, furniture makers and musicians, filmmakers, and urban studies
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