Gropius called for the school to show a new respect for craft and technique in all artistic media and suggested a return to attitudes to art and craft once characteristics of the medieval age, before art and manufacturing had drifted apart.
Gropius envisioned the Bauhaus encompassing the totality of all artistic media, including fine art, industrial design, graphic design, typography, interior design and architecture.
Lyonel Feininger (Illustrator), Walter Gropius (Author) manifesto and programme of the state Bauhaus, 1919.
This is woodcut by Lyonel Feininger. It shows a cathedral with a tower whose tip is surrounded by three stars, standing for the three arts of painting, sculpture and architecture, with the rays from them interlaced symbolically.
Paul Klee
Klee was a German water colourist, painter and etcher of fantastic works, mostly small in scale, and is one of the most inventive artists of the 20th Century.
He taught his theory of design in a component of the preliminary course. He supervised the bookbinding, glass painting and weaving workshops at various times at the Bauhaus. Some of his work includes:
Cat and Bird 1928
Senecio 1922
Wassily Kandinsky
Kandinsky was a Russian painter,wood engraver, lithographer, teacher and theorist and also a pioneer of abstract art.
He viewed music as the most transcendent form of non objective art - musicians could evoke images in listeners' minds merely with sounds. He strove to produce similarly object free, spiritually rich paintings that alluded to sounds and emotions through a unity of sensation. Kandinsky sought to convey profound spiritually and the depth of human emotion through a universal visual language of abstract forms and colours that transcended cultural and physical boundaries.
Some of his work:
Squares with Concentric Circles, 1913
Composition VIII, 1923
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