A short-lived educational institution with few alumni and a difficult history, which never fulfilled the ambitions of its founders and directors, the Bauhaus (1919-1933) nevertheless succeeded in being at the centre of the modernist movements of the Weimar Republic and of many aspects of international modernism; leading artists and designers were proud to work there and carried the lessons of their experience in a model multidisciplinary ambiance to other countries and continents. At its purest, the Bauhaus style demands unswerving adherence to modernism in architecture, design and fine art: subordination of form to function, simplicity, use of basic geometrical figures and primary colours, and classical attention to the general and characteristic above the particular and eccentric. The minimalist approach, eschewing ornament and revelling in clean bare lines, is a hallmark of the period especially in...
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Citation: White, Alfred D.. "Bauhaus". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 March 2006 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=110, accessed 09 June 2026.]
