Walter Gropius

Premiering in 1927 Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, showcases the artistic ability and social climate of Weimar Germany. The plot is about obstacles threatening a romance between Freder, a spoiled son of a rich man and a beautiful young woman named Maria who lives among the poor. The larger story line is about the struggle between a monstrous modern society and individual hardships and misconceptions. The people of Metropolis are classified by their social class and job description, the rich live above…

The Bauhaus School of Design was founded in 1919 in the city of Weimar by Walter Gropius, a German architect. The Bauhaus school was created to combine the arts and crafts, technology and architecture disciplines to reach a common goal to unify creativity and the manufacturing objects, building and art. Walter Gropius decided to combine two of his schools, the Weimar Academy of Arts and the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts, into what he called the Bauhaus. He believed that by training the…

women during the period of the Bauhaus and the works of Marianne Brandt When thinking about the Bauhaus and all of its accomplishments and designs, it is rare that one thinks of a woman's work. Despite this most likely having something to do with Walter Gropius’s intentions, men's domination in the art world and history being written largely by men, there were many distinct successful works by women that have been overshadowed by the male counterpart. Marianne Brandt was one of the Bauhaus’s…

Almost all works of students from VKhUTEMAS completely disappeared or were destroyed. Bauhaus and VKhUTEMAS had a range of similarities. They had a connection and communicated with each other, even exchanged teachers, for example Walter Gropius taught in both schools. Also, the curriculum of VKhUTEMAS was similar to that of the Bauhaus. Another common feature in the fate of both the Bauhaus and VKhUTEMAS was that no matter how readily they integrated themselves into society, the…

Alban Berg born in 1885 through 1935 was one of the composers of the Second Viennese School founded by Arnold Schoenberg. The most Romantic of these tokened European modern composers like Berg, he successfully combined late Romanticism elements with adaptations of Schoenberg’s twelve tone techniques. Berg wrote his most famous and widely performed instrumental work, the Violin Concerto, in 1935 and it’s premiere was held shortly after his death in 1936 by renowned violinist Louis Krasner. His…

WALTER CRANE | ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT, THE UNITED KINGDOM The Arts and Crafts movement originated in England, around the second part of the 19th century, and was birthed out of a few artists’ revulsion towards the industrialisation of the world– and consequently, art– around them. The Industrial Revolution and its mass-machinery had brought efficiency into the art-making realm, but had sacrificed craftsmanship and beauty in the process. This caused much dissatisfaction launched a movement that…

Katie Miller ARHT 106 12/20/2017 Final Exam 5. Who or what are the Guerilla Girls? What theoretical or philosophical point-of-view do they champion? Choose one piece associated with them and describe its form, content, and context. The “Guerrilla Girls” is an anonymous group of female artists that fight racism and sexism in the art world. The anonymous group was started in New York City in 1985 by a group of seven women after a modern art exhibit whose rosters of 165 artists included only 13…

Postmodernism is a late-20th-century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism that was a departure from modernism. Postmodernism was a movement in architecture that rejected the functionalist, modernist ideals of rationality and also used to describe a dissatisfaction with modern architecture. Postmodernism is characterized by the return of ornament and symbol to form. The aims of the postmodernism was look back to the past for inspiration of history and tradition, ideas of…

rebellion against cubism, nonrepresentational, surrealism, and dada. It started in New York in the early 1900’s after world war 2 as a new way to look art. Bauhaus was a school in Germany from 1919 to 1933 that was started by Walter Gropius. It created a movement of modern architecture. This was a movement that wanted to change how building was thought of. One example of this was Gerrit Rieveld’s “Schroeder House, Utrecht, The Netherlands” made in 1924. This architecture used…

emulated in modern design. Van de Velde still influences young architects and designers today. He has been a force in architectural theory since the 19th century at the Deutscher Werkbund; influencing minds like Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Mies Van der Rohe, who ultimately shaped the architecture of the modern style. Today, the ideas of Van de Velde have helped to dictate the vision of Starchitects like Zaha Hadid and her office of parametric magicians, who have…