Ever imagine a school that taught a new innovative way of thinking and teaching? Walter Gropius imagined this creation and it was called the Weimer Bauhaus. The school which was located in Germany had great influence on the way the art is presented and taught even today. Bauhaus was most popular in the areas of Berlin, Dessau, and Weimar. Bauhaus was the most celebrated Art school of the modern era, which was opened in 1919. The school was closed by the Nazis in April of 1933. The schools idea was to create a new kind of society, to focus on temper idealism with realism (Whitford 9). Bauhaus has had a vast effect on the way that art was taught and today is still taught.
The founder of the Bauhaus was a man by the name of Walter Gropius. He was a widely famous architect and was only thirty-six at the time. He was born in May of 1883; his grandfather and father were both successful architects of their generation. Gropius was a cavalry officer in the First World War, and he managed to change his view on how the world we live in is shaped (Whitford 33). The first Bauhaus school was in Weimar Germany, two other schools were created after that. They were located in Dessau, and Berlin. Bauhaus had the industrial revolution to thank because this brought on new machines, materials and technology that were very helpful in creating this new environment (32).
Bauhaus did not have teachers or pupils but instead liked to refer to them as "individuals who followed examples of the guilds masters, journeyman, and appetencies to learn by doing under the supervision of persons of more experience" (Frank Whiteford 11). The school was very much hands on and used workshops as classrooms. Bauhaus tried to accomplish three primary goals. The first one was to stop the arts from being isolated and instead combine all the skills such as crafters, painters, and sculptors, together to form new projects and ideas.