Bauhaus, basic art series

For just fourteen years, the Bauhaus school of art changed everything. Founded in Germany between two world wars, it reimagined how art, design, and daily life could merge into a new modernity.

With its radical blend of theory, craft, technology, and fine art, Bauhaus shaped painting, architecture, textiles, ceramics, photography, and more. From Walter Gropius to Paul Klee, Anni and Josef Albers, Kandinsky, and Mies van der Rohe, the school brought together some of the greatest creative minds of the 20th century. What emerged was not just a style, but a vision of total art: utopian, interdisciplinary, and profoundly influential.

This Taschen Basic Art edition captures the movement in all its diversity, with rich illustrations, accessible texts, and the publisher’s renowned print quality. A must-have for anyone drawn to modern design, thoughtful gifting, or simply the timeless cool of Bauhaus. Think of it as the chair you can actually afford.

Taschen’s Basic Art series offers accessible, always beautifully illustrated introductions to key artists, movements, and architects, combining concise texts with rich visuals, perfect art history summaries.

• Author(s): Magdalena Droste
• Size: 22 x 1 x 26,5 cm and 96 pages
• Language: English
• Published: 2015