The Bauhaus

1.  What is the Bauhaus?
The Bauhaus was a school in Germany that combine crafts and fine arts, but had different teaching methods.

2. What made it a different system for teaching design?
The styles of teaching were different as the students were encouraged to work in the workshop first, learn and understand the materials and getting skills in that way first instead of just drawing.

3. Who was Walter Gropius?
Walter Gropius was the founder of the Bauhaus.

4. Who was Johannes Itten?
Itten was one of the teachers.  He had a unique way of teaching and even encouraged students to meditate as he lived his life like a monk he applied it to his teaching too.

5.  What important book did he write?
The elements of colour - Design and Form

6.  Who was Moholy Nagy?
Moholy Nagy was a teacher that replaced Itten.

7. Why were the artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Lyonel Feininher influential?


8. How did the Bauhaus influence typography?
The Bauhaus basically through out all the serif fonts.  It was all about creating new and not having rules when it came to creating the new ones.