Bauhaus (magazine)

*Bauhaus*
Categories	Arts magazine; Design magazine;
Founded	1926
First issue	December 1926
Final issue	1931
Country	Germany
Language	German

Bauhaus was a quarterly avant-garde art and design magazine which existed in the period between 1926 and 1931 with some interruptions. It was launched by a German art movement with the same name and financed by an art group called Kreis der Freunde des Bauhauses (German: Circle of Friends of the Bauhaus).^[1] It had significant effects on the Danish art magazines such as Kritisk Revy and Linien.^[2]

History

Bauhaus was started on 24 December 1926 when a new Bauhaus building in Dessau was opened.^[1] It targeted professional designers and those who were interested in design and contained articles supplemented with photographic prints and layouts.^[3] The magazine emphasized the democratic elements in art and design.^[1] In 1926 it featured Marcel Breuer’s filmstrip which indicated a change in the tendency of the Bauhaus group towards the functionalism.^[4]

In 1928 five issues of the magazine were edited by Martin Gropius and László Moholy-Nagy.^[1] Then the Swiss architect Hannes Meyer and Ernő Kállai became its editors.^[1]^[3] Joost Schmidt modified the original logo of the magazine designed by Herbert Bayer.^[1] Main contributors of the magazine included Hans Hildenbrand who published articles on wall painting and relief, and architect Ludwig Hilberseimer.^[3] Bauhaus folded in late 1931.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Die Bauhaus Zeitschriften" (in German). Bauhaus Bookself. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
^ ^a ^b Kerry Greaves (2015). Mobilizing the collective: Helhesten and the Danish avant-garde, 1934-1946 (PhD thesis). City University of New York. pp. 33, 39, 54. ISBN 978-1-321-49966-7. ProQuest 1651529564.
^ ^a ^b ^c T'ai Smith (Fall 2006). "Limits of the Tactile and the Optical: Bauhaus Fabric in the Frame of Photography". Grey Room. 25 (25): 12, 23, 29. doi:10.1162/grey.2006.1.25.6. S2CID 57567565.
^ Priyanka Basu (March 2020). "Book review. Bauhaus Imaginista: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, March 15–June 10, 2019". West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture. 27 (1): 130. doi:10.1086/711199. S2CID 225090024.