Bauhaus

No school of design has influenced the history of design more than the Bauhaus. It had its home in Weimar and Dessau and perhaps it is no coincidence that some of the members of the Formost team come from the same place.

The Bauhaus, the most famous modern school for art design and architecture in Germany, was founded in Weimar in 1919.

No less than the unification of art and craft was the declared goal of Gropius and soon a long line of renowned artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Oskar Schlemmer, Johannes Itten, Paul Klee and Marianne Brandt became prominent figures in the art and craft world.

The masters trained students there in various disciplines - from sculpture to painting and craftsmanship. As part of an exhibition for the general public, the "Haus Am Horn" was built in 1923 as an experimental house in which the masters and students presented their ideas of contemporary buildings.

This experimental house is the only piece of architecture that the Bauhaus ever constructed in Weimar, but today it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Due to hostility from right-wing conservative circles, the Bauhaus Weimar moved to Dessau in 1925 and eventually moved to Berlin in 1932. But even there, the school had to close permanently a few months later due to political circumstances. After these developments, however, many students and teachers of the Bauhaus went abroad and spread their ideas throughout the world.

The anniversary in 2019 speaks to the success of this concept - in its 100-year history, straightforward functionality and a love of purist aesthetics and clean geometry have characterised art and industrial design worldwide. To this day, the efficiency and usefulness of a product is decisive for Bauhaus design; aesthetics and artistic expression are shaped exclusively by the function of the product.