Bauhaus

Oil Painting by Vakhtang Kakulia

The Bauhaus was one of the first ever design schools. It came into being from the merger of the Weimar Academy of Arts and the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts, and was founded by Walter Gropius the architect in 1919 as a school of art, architecture, crafts, and theater, with the focus of instruction on the unity of art and technology. It was closed in 1933 by the Nazis who considered it a front for communists because of the large number of Russian artists involved in the school. The chief representatives of Bauhaus art were: Walter Gropius, Lionel Feininger, Paul Klee, Vassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Franz Marc, Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Johannes Itten, Marcel Breuer, Lothar Schreier, Gunta Stolz, and Hannes Meyer. The translation of the German word Bauhaus into English is "Architecture House".

This oil painting on cardboard by Vakhtang Kakulia is entitled "Bauhaus". It almost gives the appearance of a collage of a house, or of a patchwork quilt. You can make out the street in front, a car parked on the street, a door, window, an antenna on the roof. All the objects are placed at odd angels to each other.


Bauhaus
Vakhtang Kakulia
Oil on Cardboard 55x43cm

Autumnal

Oil Paintings by Vakhtang Kakulia