Virtual Sandwiched In with Thomas Germano - The Bauhaus

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Topic: Virtual Sandwiched In with Thomas Germano - Bauhaus
Time: Oct 23, 2020 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Meeting ID: 874 2238 6544
Passcode: 327056
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The Bauhaus, a German word meaning "house of building", was a school founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany by the architect Walter Gropius. The school emerged out of late 19th century desires to reunite the applied arts and manufacturing, and to reform art education. Gropius called for the school to show a new respect for craft and technique in all artistic media, and suggested a return to attitudes to art and craft once characteristic of the medieval age, before art and manufacturing had drifted far apart. In the mid 1920s the medievalism gave way to a stress on uniting art and industrial design, and it was this which ultimately proved to be the Bauhaus’s most original and important achievement. Gropius envisioned the Bauhaus encompassing the totality of all artistic media, including fine art, industrial design, graphic design, typography, interior design, and architecture. The Bauhaus was the most influential modernist art school of the 20th century, and was one whose approach to teaching, and understanding art's relationship to society and technology, had a major impact both in Europe and the United States long after it was forcibly closed by the intolerant Third Reich. The school is also renowned for its faculty, which included artists: Kandinsky, Albers, Moholy‐Nagy, Klee, Itten, and architects: Gropius, Mies van der Rohe and the Designer Marcel Breuer. Bauhaus architecture can be seen today in Europe, Israel and The US including one house designed by Marcel Breuer in Nassau County, Long Island. Bauhaus influences are most apparent today in modernist architecture, furniture and interior design. 2019 marked the 100th anniversary of the seminal Bauhaus movement.
Professor Thomas Germano will deliver a live remote visual lecture discussing the art and artists associated with the Bauhaus.