Bauhaus was a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was known for the approach to design that it publicized and taught
1914: Henri van de Velde resigns his position to return to Belgium, nominates Walter Gropius (former student of Peter Behrens) as his successor
Weimar Arts and Crafts school combined with Weimar Fine Arts academy; new school called ‘Das Staatliche Bauhaus’ (the New State Home for Building)
Bauhaus is the logical consequence of German interest in improved design for industrial society, as seen in Deutsche Werkbund
KEY EARLY MEMBERS
Walter Gropius, Director
Teachers: Paul Klee, Vasily Kandinsky
In 1937 Moholy-Nagy moved to Chicago to become the director of the New Bauhaus, which was a school which displayed its doctrines in America.
A student at the Weimar Bauhaus, where he originally attended the pre-course under Johannes Itten, after which he took a workshop on mural painting, lead by Wassily Kandinsky.
In 1925 the he finished his training with a final examination. He was given the position of head of the newly created workshop for print and advertising at the Dessau Bauhaus, where they also produced the school's own printworks.
Kandinsky accepted an invitation of Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus (the Higher school of construction and art designing) and moved to Weimar where Kandinsky headed a fresco workshop.
At the Bauhaus Dessau, Joost taught calligraphy (1925 to 1932) and conducted the sculpture workshop (1928–1930), and the advertising, typography and printing workshop and the photography department (1928–1932). From 1929 to 1930, he was also a life-drawing teacher, teaching life and figure drawing for the upper semesters from 1930.