Bauhaus in 7 Minutes: Revolutionary Design Movement Explained

So good, loved the editing, narration and the whole video. Great job!

Music is too loud

Sillyness

East Aurora NY Arts and Crafts school is amazing

Now do art nouveau,it’s very pretty.

Get rid of the annoying mid intro with the music, it’s unnecessary and does not bring anything to the table…it makes the viewing experience more worse.

Valeu!

And think they had that many parties because of the hyperinflation in Germany. Everyone there was basically “depressed” and the parties were used as a event to cheer the people up.

So much effort put into this... why not take 10 minutes to look up the proper pronunciation of foreign words? Every time you said something in German, I had to take a second to figure out what it was.

Bauhaus - cheap, simple, uncomplicated, anyone can build it, looks like a bunker .... grand
Remove everything that makes buildings interesting and varied, that engages the eye, and just leave the bare, banal, artless, primitive and cheap shell.
No wonder it became so popular - you don't need any effort to make something like this. It s cheap.
And since it was sold to the proletariat as "revolutionary new" and "hyped" as one would say today, it became popular. The masses, dumb as sheep, think its "artsy" and the people building and financing this crap benefit because its cheap.

That stuff is just as ugly and boring as communist prefabricated buildings. If you have a different view, please sit down and analyze the architectural differences between GDR prefabricated buildings (concrete, rectangular, white, windows at regular intervals) in terms of shape and color vs. Bauhaus architecture you will see its the same thing.

And then, please compare it with a historically grown old city. You know one of those that Bauhaus-monkeys would consider overly flourished with ornaments, stucco work and colored roof tile motifs (Prague, Munich, Vienna, Innsbruck, Bern etc etc)
And then be honest to yourself, where would you rather spend your holidays? In Weissenhof in Stuttgart (a Bauhaus Settlement) or in one of the aforementioned cities?

Conclusion - Bauhaus = overrated, incompetent buffoons who adorned themselves as artists in a pompous manner disguising their incompetence - as we say today - in hyped "art". And today we pay the price with banal, monotonous buildings and works of "art".....

I find the balace of style and practicality intriguing.

Bauhaus is an anti-human ideology.

Thank you for the fabulous video. There seem to be clips from a movie where students are engaging in assorted creative activities/experiments. Could you share the name of it please?

Just make the art, commies without leaving behind a trail of chaos for once.

The BEST style ever.

Thank you for this video! Soviet Vkhutemas had а quite similar spirit i think

you forgot at least paul klee, come on

please learn to pronounce the names correctly. it will make you sound more knowledgeable

Summary: Eva Zeisel > Marianne Brandt


"The most famous example of female creativity at the Bauhaus came from Marianne Brandt." In my opinion Eva Zeisel's work is significantly better than Marianne Brandt's work. Zeisel's work was also created from clay. When creating items, the use of clay versus the use of metal speaks to social roles like commoner versus nobility. The commoner could afford clay, while the rich could afford metal. So even the materials used by Zeisel conceptually harmonizes better with the idea of bringing art to the masses, one of the key goals of the Bauhaus. Her work was also slip cast, another nod to mass production. So even though her work was conceptually better, visually fluid, and the most perfectly designed teapot to ever grace existence, instead the narrator went with Brandt and a squat, ugly, half useless, high maintenance, graceless, hideous teapot made of shiny metal that visually blinds the form itself, and then robs you of half your tea. What an ugly woman Marianne Brandt truly was, and her work was just as hideous. But hey, she made forms for a higher social class, the ones who write the history books, so let's give her all the credit.

On a side note I have used Brandt's spherical tea pots extensively. The local cafe where I routinely have tea with a friend has her spherical tea pots, not the hideous half pot that the ignorant narrator trumpeted as the best Bauhaus has to offer. The handle is made of metal and doesn't get hot. The surface is constantly spotted with hard water spots. When I use the tea pot, all I see are hard water spots. Nobody maintains the surface or even cares so being made of metal actually distracts from the form. Take a wild guess who's work doesn't require constant maintenance. hashtag "I ain't got no time for that." I also have to tip it at a super awkward angle about 10-15% farther than a normal tea pot, because of that poorly designed, ridiculous spout.

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I love art deco and Bauhaus architecture. Some of the industrial Bauhaus buildings are stunning.

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Look into how Bauhaus students were treated.

It’s an inhuman and inhumane school of design.

Art Nouveaux, etc., is preferable to either Bauhaus or Art Deco perhaps due to temperament or aesthetic preference.

Why on earth would you include Rudolf Steiner when talking about Itten's students? Steiner was 27 years his senior and it was Steiner who had some - but not very strong - influence on Itten.

Worst thing ever… cold and heartless… this vision idealistic and theoretical of « practical & functional » lead to all these city planning none senses instrumental to politics causing today social issues… not saying intentions were not good just saying stop living in fantasies

Moholy Nage designed the Parker Pen that we know as the t-ball jotter. It is my favorite pen. I have always preferred them to any other pen.

While a good history, you barely discussed the actual design elements at all and what makes each of them 'bauhaus'.

Well, according to the video, it seems like that Bauhaus was a very unique and groundbreaking art school. Sorry, but finding a direct comparable art school is really challenging for me, mostly due to my lack of knowledge. hehe. 😏
The Wassily Chair offers a comfortable and indulgent seating experience, perfect for taking a well-deserved break from your daily grind, while sipping well-brewed tea from the sleek-shaped, elegant Marianne Brandt Teapot( your taste buds deserve a vacation in style, as well, right?😁), and I love its minimalist aesthetics. A flawless marriage of visual appeal and practical functionality.

The PSFS Building at 12th & Market Street in Philadelphia, Pa. completed in 1932, at 33 Stories tall is one of the largest,if not the largest, examples of BAUHAUS architectural design in the world. This former bank building was converted into a Loews Hotel. So if someone wants to visit and actually sleep in a work of art this the place to do it. I work in this beautiful building in the 1960’s and 1970’s when the interior of the building and many of its furnishings were of BAUHAUS design, including the letters PSFS still standing proudly on top the building.

I'm sorry, but besides the type face, everything about Bauhaus design was awful. They took beautiful buildings, especially public buildings, away from us. Function over form meant that nothing could be decorated beyond the simplest lines. Bauhaus architecture is down right boring. We have been struggling to free ourselves of their influence for 100 years.

Mies's name got butchered so hard 😂(tip: tip his name into translate and let it pronounce from German)
I learned a lot btw, thx!

What philosophy? You keep referring to the philosophy of the Bauhaus and her instructors, but you never name it. May I do so for you? In a word - MARXISM.

the narrator pronounced Weimar and Mies van der Rohe’s name wrong

Has this method been tried again ? If so when and where

Closest I know of would be the Art Center College of Design which was fashioned after the Bauhaus.

Great video. In Buenos Aires, we have FADU (Faculty of Architecture, Desing and Urbanism) and we build the same sense of community and collaboration they used to have in the Bauhaus.

thanks!!! Excellent Greetings from Santiago 🇨🇱

in sec 4 this is the bauhaus in dessau and not weimar

I don't hate this video, I have a critique, though. There should be more discussion about what the particulars of what makes something "Bauhaus" or not: I never heard the expression "form follows function" which is an intrinsic Bauhaus tenet. I think this should have been discussed more.

the Bauhaus was preceded and heavily influenced by "De Stijl" and Russian avantgarde (Suprematism)

Me hubiese gustado más información sobre otras artes que adhirieron a la Bauhaus como pintura, escultura y fotografía

I like form follows function.

Many of the designs I see in the video were also created by the italian futurism, in the 1910's and 1920's. Bauhaus architecture was adopted in Italy during the fascist regime, on the opposite of Germany, and those buildings are still in use today.

No, la Bauhaus fue única.
No puedo pensar en ninguna otra escuela que fuera esa especie de sueño consciente que fue la Bauhaus. Qué grupo de personas, aquellas, quienes lo habitaron!

You had me at enimas

One of my favourites. Combining aesthetic form with practical function is the definition of genius.