Art History 280 - COLQ: THE BAUHAUS

Topics course. This course explores the art, architecture, history and theory of the German art school, the Bauhaus. Beginning with the school's origins during WWI, this course concentrates on the controversial development of the Bauhaus during the 1920s and 30s, and conclude with the Nazi closure and the consequent exile of many Bauhaus artists. We consider the architecture, textiles, theater, metals, prints, photographs, paintings and sculpture of Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Lilli Reich, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Moholy-Nagy, Anni Albers and others, as well as the writings of Weimar theorists such as Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer. (E)