Bauhaus (1919-1933) by Michael Siebenbrodt & Lutz Schöbe

Author:Michael Siebenbrodt & Lutz Schöbe [Siebenbrodt, Michael & Schöbe, Lutz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783107056
Publisher: Parkstone International
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Theodor Emil Müller-Hummel, Man-Machine, 1922

Joost Schmidt, who had ambitions for stage design, took over the leadership, but did not want to accept the reduction of his workshop’s function to mere groundwork. He focused his attention on an art pedagogic orientation and tried more or less successfully to orient the themes of sculpture design according to the now-compulsory principle of technical reproducibility and to anchor them solidly in his teaching programme as well as in the workshop’s profile. Joost Schmidt gave an “Elementary Sculpture Lesson” which, in addition to his teaching as part of the preparatory class, mainly went into the spatial aspect of the design process and consciously made use of photography as a modern medium. The ideas and artistic practise of László Moholy-Nagy undoubtedly had an innovative effect on this. The interaction between solid objects and space, and the movement of the solid object in space were henceforth central themes of the experimental work in the sculpture workshop. The systematic analysis by means of photography of the elementary spatial solids of cone, cube, sphere, cylinder, etc., formed the starting point for a sensitisation of spatial experience with all the senses. In balanced and concentrated perception training, contemporary aesthetic qualities were to be plumbed by means of new kinetic sculptures. Systematically run in test arrangements, it resulted in an autonomous, unmistakable profile of applied mathematics and the teaching of elementary design experience. Schmidt’s complex understanding of space, which included the earthly as well as the cosmic and was oriented towards man, also played a major role. Opportunities to apply in practise what had been tested in the “laboratory” were found in model construction, in exhibition design and in theatre work. Since Joost Schmidt was also in charge of the department of publicity graphics, advertising and typography from 1928, favourable conditions existed for the optimum combination of sculpture, typographic and, especially, photographic elements. From this, Schmidt developed a complex design approach which enabled him to stage design projects that would set future standards.

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