Bauhaus — Ausstellung Waves | Mid-Century Modern Print in Blue

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Bauhaus — Ausstellung Waves | Mid-Century Modern Print in BlueThe Bauhaus (19191933) was the most influential design school of the 20th century, founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany. Teaching painting, sculpture, architecture, and craft under one roof, it dissolved the boundary between fine art and functional design. Its faculty Kandinsky, Klee, Moholy Nagy, Itten redefined how colour, form, and space were understood. The Bauhaus Ausstellung posters, with their bold geometric forms, pure primary colours,

Pompeian arabesque — were the immediate source for the Arts & Crafts movement

and Vietnam copied these texts as acts of devotion

flowering fields — reveal an equally extraordinary painter who sought in nature the same visual density and pattern as in his figure work

Son of Hiroshi Yoshida

and symbolic gestures of its performers — is one of the most distinctive and spectacular in world art

Kawase Hasui (1883–1957) was a master of shin-hanga

embodies the direct expression of Zen mind: not decorative

Deeply influenced by his friendship with Van Doesburg

filled with exotic flora and enigmatic figures

feminine beauty

Rudolf Ernst (1854–1932) was an Austrian Orientalist painter who spent much of his career in Paris and made extensive journeys to Spain

Edward Penfield (1866–1925) was the art director of Harper's Monthly and one of the founding figures of the American poster movement — an illustrator who brought the influence of the French affiche and Japanese woodblock to American graphic design with an elegance and simplicity that distinguished his work from all contemporaries

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