History of the movement
The German Bauhaus Movement is over 100 years old. It’s one of the most influential architectural movements and has profound design implications until today. It follows a groundbreaking minimalistic and efficient approach, while combining crafts and the fine arts.
The German Art school called “Staatliches Bauhaus” was founded by
Walter Gropius in 1919. It was positioned in Weimar (1919-1925), Dessau (1925-1932) and Berlin until 1933. In that year the school closed under the pressure of the Nazis. This devastating ending was also a great start towards spreading the ideas of the Bauhaus movement around the globe, since a lot of the artists emigrated. Subsequently, the design ideas had vast implications on modern architecture and design.
Ideas
The movement aimed to reunite fine art and functional design. This was based on the fear of the heartlessness of modern manufacturing that arose in the late 19
th century. Thereby the artists of the movement tried to unite the principles of mass production and individual artistic vision. Bauhaus artists tried to aim for linear and geometrical forms, everything else was of less importance. Line, shape and colour was the focus of their work. Famous artists of the movement are Mies van der Rohe, Klee, Kandinsky, or Moholy-Nagy.
Inspiration
Also, our jewelry is highly influenced by the impacts of the Bauhaus movement. The
general idea of minimalistic approaches to our glocal designs or traditional jewelry, follows the idea of clean designs that express your individuality.
Naturally, especially our
Bauhaus Collection shows this influence, which we call seductive minimalism. Our Bauhaus jewelry seeks to level the distinction between the fine and applied arts and reunite manufacturing and creativity. Thereby, the collection provides delicate, translucent geometric shapes that translate into elegant and easy to wear shapes. Our Bauhaus collection uses a lot of Ceramic, which was a common element during the period. Pursuing evermore individual jewelry is part of the influence of the Bauhaus movement, too. Thus, we created two wonderful pieces that you can customize. Choose your own ceramic colour combinations to find your individual artistic vision: the
Bauhaus custom square and
Bauhaus custom round rings.
Recommendations
In case you are interested in the Bauhaus movement, we highly recommend seeing for yourself by visiting Bauhaus museums. For example the one in
Berlin or in
Dessau itself. Further, just take a look around you. No matter if it’s the chair you are sitting on, or the building you might be living in. At last, we highly recommend visiting the
white city in Tel Aviv, to see stunning Bauhaus architecture that was started from emigrating German Jewish architects in the 1930’s.
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