BAUHAUS
1919-1933
This architectural movement, Bauhaus, the “House that art built”, has its origin in the name used to refer to the cathedral builders of the Middle Ages. Architect Walter Gropius founded Bauhaus in 1919 in Weimar, Germany. After moving first to Dessau, then again to Berlin, and after being headed by different directors (H. Meyer, L. Mies van der Rohe), it was officially terminated in 1933 by the Nazi government.
Bauhaus’ objective was to merge the different arts with architecture by means of a dynamic association of artists and craftsmen. It expressed its faith in the future, the desire of its followers to become the new cathedral builders who would erect the “Cathedral of Socialism”. Its school offered students theoretical as well as practical courses; it encouraged community effort and sought to establish a priviledged relationship with the world of private enterprise (craftsmen and industries). It became a laboratory where modernism was being tested and created.
Out of it came a specific form of functional design and esthetics which by 1923 had evolved into Constructivism.
Artists not in gallery : Lyonel Feininger, Johannes Itten, Vassili Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Gerhard Marcks, Georg Muche, Oskar Schlemmer, etc.
Artists in gallery : Josef Albers, Max Bill , Lajos Ebneth, Wassily Kandinsky, Jean Leppien, Kasimir Malévitch, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Henri Nouveau, Henri Ernst Pfeiffer, Luigi Veronesi.

XXth century art movements
- 1855-1890 IMPRESSIONNISM
- 1880-1895 JAPONISM
- 1888-1910 NABIS MOVEMENT
- 1900-1932 EXPRESSIONISM
- 1902-1907 FAUVISM
- 1905-1930 GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
- 1907-1912 NEW-PRIMITIVISM
- 1907-1925 CUBISM
- 1909 RAYONNISM
- 1909-1916 FUTURISM
- 1912-1920 ORPHISM
- 1913 ARMORY SHOW
- 1915-1920 SUPREMATISM
- 1915-1935 SCHOOL OF PARIS MONTPARNASSE
- 1916-1924 DADAISM
- 1918-1939 PHOTOGRAPHY BETWEEN WARS
- 1919-1933 BAUHAUS
- 1920-1927 PURISM
- 1920-1950 SOCIAL REALISM
- 1922-1933 ITALIAN NOVECENTO
- 1922-1960 MURALISM
- 1924-1969 SURREALISM
- 1925-1935 ART DECO
- 1927-1965 ATELIER 17
- 1930-1970 MODERN SCULPTURE
- 1931-1938 ABSTRACTION-CREATION
- 1933 UNIT ONE GROUP
- 1935-1980 MAGIC REALISM
- 1938-1968 SPACIALISM
- 1942-1957 ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
- 1942-1975 NON FIGURATIVE ART
- 1945-1960 SCHOOL OF PARIS
- 1945-1985 ART BRUT
- 1946-1956 NEW REALITIES
- 1946-2000 LETTRISM
- 1948-1952 COBRA
- 1950-1960 LYRIC ART, ABSTRACT, TACHISM
- 1950-1960 NEW-DADAISM
- 1951 ESPACE GROUP
- 1954-.... NUAGISM
- 1955-1968 OPTICAL ART
- 1955-1970 POP'ART
- 1960 SCHOOL OF LONDON
- 1960-1970 NEW REALISM
- 1960-1972 FLUXUS
- 1960-1980 NEW FIGURATION
- 1962-1965 MECHANICAL ART
- 1962-1980 MINIMAL ART
- 1965-1975 SCHOOL OF NICE
- 1965-1975 NARRATIVE FIGURATION
- 1965-1980 CONCEPTUAL ART
- 1965-1985 HYPERREALISM
- 1966-1971 ARTE POVERA
- 1968- LAND ART
- 1970-1972 SUPPORTS/SURFACE
- 1970-2020 STREET ART
- 1975- PHOTOGRAPHY PERIOD 1975
- 1975-1985 GERMAN NEW EXPRESSIONNISM
- 1979-1990 ITALIAN TRANS-AVANT-GARDE
- 1980-2016 FREE FIGURATION
- XXème siècle SINGULAR ARTISTS
- XXth century ARTISTS OF TODAY