Lausanne – MUDAC Bauhaus style

gooutmag.ch, Florinda Cairoli, October 8, 2018

On September 20, the new exhibition at mudac, the museum of design and contemporary applied arts in Lausanne, opened. Entitled The Bauhaus #itsalldesign, the exhibition was designed by the Vitra Design Museum but revisited, for the occasion, by the Lausanne team.

Before becoming an internationally known artistic movement, the Bauhaus was a multidisciplinary school. Founded by the architect and designer Walter Gropius in 1919, the training offered aimed to reconcile the plastic arts, crafts and architecture with knowledge of the human mentality or the processes of perception. The courses, organized like workshops, pushed the apprentices to produce furniture, tapestries, tableware, books or posters. Under the direction of recognized craftsmen and artists (we think of Wassily Kandinsky or Paul Klee), the students had to acquire plural knowledge in order to respond to a complete creative mission and produce objects that meet everyday needs. Gropius’ desire to fuse all the arts together thus enabled the Bauhaus to quickly impose itself, through its innovation. And despite the closure imposed on the school in 1933 by the Nazi regime, the Bauhaus and its principles have continued to deeply mark contemporary aesthetics.

Photograph taken from a manual for the use of tools, Thonet Frères, 1935, Alexander von Vegesack Collection, Domaine de Boisbuchet

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