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Bauhaus [ˈbaʊˌhaʊs] n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) a. a German school of architecture and applied arts founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius on experimental principles of functionalism and truth to materials. After being closed by the Nazis in 1933, its ideas were widely disseminated by its students and staff, including Kandinsky, Klee, Feininger, Moholy-Nagy, and Mies van der Rohe b. (as modifier) Bauhaus wallpaper [German, literally: building house] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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| She was influenced by Isadora Duncan, the Bauhaus movement, and Freud, who was a family friend. Part of the satisfaction of Zittel's diary is that of observing a maverick at work, designing and modifying her life as she goes and revealing herself as the heir to a range of ancestors including the Bauhaus, Joseph Beuys, Buckminster Fuller, Mary Miss, and Alice Aycock--as well as to a host of unsung hippies, squatters, and outsiders of all kinds. What does it mean when the Ur-modernism and distinctive pedagogies of the German Bauhaus arrive in the rolling green hills of a former colonial battle site in South Africa, via the conduit of well-meaning Swedes? |
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