Bauhaus (magazine)

Bauhaus

Categories	Arts magazine Design magazine
Founded	1926
First issue	December 1926
Final issue	1931
Country	Germany
Language	German

Bauhaus was a quarterly avant-garde art and design magazine which existed in the period between 1926 and 1931 with some interruptions. It was launched by a German art movement with the same name and financed by an art group called Kreis der Freunde des Bauhauses (German: Circle of Friends of the Bauhaus).[1] It had significant effects on the Danish art magazines such as Kritisk Revy and Linien.[2]

History

Bauhaus was started on 24 December 1926 when a new Bauhaus building in Dessau was opened.[1] It targeted professional designers and those who were interested in design and contained articles supplemented with photographic prints and layouts.[3] The magazine emphasized the democratic elements in art and design.[1] In 1926 it featured Marcel Breuer’s filmstrip which indicated a change in the tendency of the Bauhaus group towards the functionalism.[4]

In 1928 five issues of the magazine were edited by Martin Gropius and László Moholy-Nagy.[1] Then the Swiss architect Hannes Meyer and Ernő Kállai became its editors.[1][3] Joost Schmidt modified the original logo of the magazine designed by Herbert Bayer.[1] Main contributors of the magazine included Hans Hildenbrand who published articles on wall painting and relief, and architect Ludwig Hilberseimer.[3] Bauhaus folded in late 1931.[2]

See also

• List of avant-garde magazines

References

1. "Die Bauhaus Zeitschriften" (in German). Bauhaus Bookself. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
2. Kerry Greaves (2015). Mobilizing the collective: Helhesten and the Danish avant-garde, 1934-1946 (PhD thesis). City University of New York. pp. 33, 39, 54. ISBN 978-1-321-49966-7. ProQuest 1651529564.
3. T'ai Smith (Fall 2006). "Limits of the Tactile and the Optical: Bauhaus Fabric in the Frame of Photography". Grey Room. 25 (25): 12, 23, 29. doi:10.1162/grey.2006.1.25.6. S2CID 57567565.
4. Priyanka Basu (March 2020). "Book review. Bauhaus Imaginista: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, March 15–June 10, 2019". West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture. 27 (1): 130. doi:10.1086/711199. S2CID 225090024.