Bauhaus
The German school of art and design where art, craft and industry were to meet.
The Bauhaus was founded in Weimar in 1919 by the architect Walter Gropius, moved to Dessau in 1925 and to Berlin in 1932. The Nazis forced the school to close in 1933.
In the workshops teachers and students designed lamps, furniture, wallpapers and textiles that could be made industrially. Many of those who taught there later fled to the United States and spread the ideas.
Basic shapes: circle, square and triangle
Tubular steel, glass and metal
No ornament – material and construction are enough
Primary colours and black and white