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Bauhaus
Test your knowledge of this influential and shortlived German school of thought
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Fine Art
Undergraduate 1
12/04/2011

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What was the political era which the Bauhaus arose from and in what year?
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The Weimar Republic, 1919
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What ended the Bauhaus project? When was this?
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The Nazis, 1933
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Who was the first director of the Bauhaus?
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Walter Gropius
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Bauhaus was a reunion between what two bodies?
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Creative arts and the industrial world. In england proponents would be John Ruskin and William Morris
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What grand term did Bauhaus aspire to?
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Gesamtkunstwerk or "total work of the arts"
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Name three very famous painters who tutored there in the 1920s
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Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky
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What did two notable Bauhaus tutors regard as "the paragon of abstract art"
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Music
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Which influential tutor at the Bauhaus was a huge proponent of Constructivism which went on to become the key idea of the Bauhaus?
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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
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The Bauhaus made a very notable change during its existence, from what to... what?
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Pre-industrial craft to industrial design
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Who designed the Bauhaus's new "Institute of Design, in Dessau?
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Walter Gropius
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In principle, the Bauhaus started off politically being ..what?
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Socialist
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Name one very important ART movement which was influential on the Bauhaus, and one important INDUSTRIAL movement
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The cultural experiments of Russian Constructivism and the industrial techniques of American Fordism
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