Bauhaus movement. The influence from dutch De Stijl

The direction of design the Bauhaus movement was following didn´t remain undisputed. Voices from outside criticized the abundance of expressionistic elements and the lack of unity in the works of art. Some as the artist Vilmos Huszár missed the unifiying spirit in the Bauhaus movement and the kind of discipline combining color, form and space.

To create a piece of art with unique and clear meaning, there had to be made a reduction when choosing colors according to Theo van Doesburg, a member of the Dutch artist movement "De Stijl". Forming elements of construction should be the harmony of the polar forces - the male and the female powers, as they were interpreted - and the use of a defined set of six colors: gred, blue and yellow as basic and white, black and grey as additional colors. Besides those claims the synthesis of antagonistic elements should be integrated in the aesthetic work and overcome the dualism of the negative and positive, the vertical and horizontal, the dynamic and the static as they were perceived by these artists when watching the creative powers of nature.

Those opinions from "De Stijl", founded 1917 by van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian were absorbed by leading figures among the Bauhaus teachers as well as by students in Weimar. Especially Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius adapted the impulses coming from "De Stijl" and assimilated those ideas to their own work.

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