Contemporary German architecture set its main trends in the first thirty years of the 20th century. The strongest influences came from Weimar and Dessau, where the Bauhaus school was founded in 1919
The intention of Bauhaus was to develop creative minds for architecture and industry and thus influence them so that they would be able to produce artistically, technically and practically balanced utensils. The institute included workshops for making models of type houses and all kinds of utensils, and departments of advertising art, stage planning, photography, and typography. The neoplastic and constructive movements of art to a great extent steered the form lines of Bauhaus.
During and After the first World War, there were many influences for graphic designers such as poverty, new use of colour and typography. The move from abundance to poverty, especially in the subdued Germany struggling with great economical problems which created a new kind of consciousness. To begin with it appeared in the late expressionistic emotional manifestations and before long also in a formal asceticism. Bauhaus was a reaction to these social changes. Social starting points and new esthetic goals were not easy to combine with the new human being. The result was sometimes a puritanism that emphasized squareness. Thus the twenties were full of contrasts, both fruitful and destructive.
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