Bauhaus: Art as Life

Imagine going to an art school where the godfather of abstraction, Wassily Kandinsky, is teaching a class in wall painting? Or where pioneering modern architect Mies van der Rohe might look approvingly over your shoulder at a sketch for a bungalow? This splendid, if restrained survey of the seriously avant-garde German seat of learning, which ran from 1919-1933, sticks to who went into, what went on in and what came out of the various Bauhaus art school iterations in Weimar, Dessau and finally Berlin. In striving to teach a holistic approach to looking at and ordering the visual world, the Bauhaus inadvertently became the very Gesamtkunstwerk – the total work of art – it had been striving to help discover all along. (OW)

 

 

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