History Of The Bauhaus Movement

The Bauhaus movement began in 1919 when Walter Groplus started a school with a perception to bring together the gap between the art and industry and it was famous for the access to design that advertise and taught. This school was introduced with the idea of combining all the work of art together in which all the arts, including architecture, would finally be brought together. With the help of Bauhaus, it had an enlightened influence upon consecutive expansion in art, architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design and typography.

The Bauhaus movement reconstructed the design and production of modern furniture by starting the use of steel as frames and supports for tables, chairs, sofas and even lamps. The use of machine made and steel tubing creating simplified forms contributed to the look of Bauhaus furniture. Bauhaus insisted on using only primary colors, red, blue and yellow. The color palette was combined with very simple geometric shapes that led to an evident ideology of what the Bauhaus designs should resemble.
The school was closed in the 1930s under pressure from the Nazis, but the movement still influences modernist architecture and modern design today. While Bauhaus has influences in art, industry and technology but it has been most influential in modern furniture