nurturing children to be inquisitive and open to the world
The Froebel Decade theme for 2019 will be dedicated to the impact Froebel’s philosophy had on art and architecture, especially his “gifts” and the mathematical aspects of his early childhood education concept.
With the founding of a kindergarten teachers’ training school, Froebel was also seen as a supporter of women’s emancipation.
This collection documents the history of Bauhaus, one of the most influential schools of architecture, design, and art of the 20th century. The collection includes teaching materials, workshop models, architectural plans and models, photographs, documents and a library.
A building block game that conforms to the premises of the Bauhaus
An introduction to the world of shapes, colours and sounds.
A child from 1 year can use these cubes to make first experiences in stacking with a basic form. 12 cube blocks ring and rattle, with the same sound for each pair of the same colour. These 4cm cubes are stored in a soft cotton sack.
Strong rainbow colours from yellow to blue help with the assignment the same sound to each colour. The game is designed to give pleasure and fulfill a didactic purpose.
The Bauhaus Archive was founded in Darmstadt in 1960. Walter Gropius and other members of the Bauhaus movement gave their support. The collection grew so quickly that a dedicated museum seemed attractive and Gropius was asked to design it. In 1964, he produced plans for a new museum in Darmstadt.
The Senate of Berlin was ready to supply both space and money for the project. In 1971 the Bauhaus Archive moved to temporary accommodation in Berlin. After modifying the plans for the location beside the Landwehrkanal, the foundation stone was laid in 1976 and the building was ready by 1979.
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School. Along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture.
Designed in 1931 by Hermann Gretsch based on Bauhaus principles, the round and restrained forms of Arzberg Form 1382 have endured as some of the best selling porcelain in the world for 80 years.
Hermann Gretsch made his intention clear when he said “Get to the heart of things” and then created the Form 1382. Gretsch’s maxim was the reason behind the Frankish porcelain manufacturer’s rise to become an international porcelain design brand and still remains Arzberg’s guiding principle.
“We can no longer afford to bring products to the market which bring no joy to customers after even a short while because they are impractical, dated or simply not modern enough” – such were the words of Dr. Hermann Gretsch, whose Form 1382 revolutionised the world of porcelain in the early 30s.
This legendary design has become one of the absolute classics of modern industrial design. It is on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York as one of the few porcelain exhibits. Even today, the best designers design for life. Arzberg porcelain is always functional and always beautiful: it is created to eat from, to serve food and celebrate. To touch and admire. To use and enjoy.
It is hardly surprising that many designers, architects and photographers so often serve their food on Arzberg porcelain. Most creatives prefer not to burden themselves with excessive decoration. They seek authentic beauty – both in their work and in their own life. In their circles, Arzberg forms a kind of cult: “Because the brand stands for the interplay between interesting design and functionality”, as head designer Heike Philipp puts it. And porcelain expert Helmut Sättler is quite clear: “Arzberg is not just about selling porcelain. It is about history, design and quality. Porcelain is not simply an everyday item for the dinner table – it is an expression of style, indulgence and joy in setting a table.”
The description Tom Lehrer himself made about the song:
“for further details of the life of Alma Werfel, the reader is referred to her autobiography ‘And The Bridge Is Love’.”
Of all the colorful figures on the twentieth century European cultural scene, hardly anyone has provoked more polarized reactions than Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel (1879–1964). Mistress to a long succession of brilliant men, she married three of the best known: the composer Gustav Mahler, the architect Walter Gropius, and the writer Franz Werfel.
Her admirers regarded Alma as a self sacrificing figure of inspiration to great artists, many of whom indeed exhibited a remarkable devotion to her.
Historian Oliver Hilmes drawing on a trove of unpublished material, much of it in Alma’s own words, succeeds in evoking the atmosphere of intellectual life on the Continent during the first half of the century.
Hilmes goes on to describe life in émigré communities on both coasts of the United States following the Nazi takeover in Europe.
First published in German in 2004, the biography was hailed as a rare combination of meticulous scholarship and sensational gossip. The whiff of scandal surrounding this reputed muse of geniuses helped make the book a runaway best seller.
Yellow-Red-Blue was created by Wassily Kandinsky in 1925. The primary colors on the painting feature squares, circles and triangles and there are abstract shapes mixed in with these. There are also straight and curved black lines that go through the colors and shapes. This is to help provoke deep thought in the person viewing the piece.
This simple visual identification of forms and the main coloured masses present on the canvas is only a first approach to the inner reality of the work, whose appreciation necessitates deeper observation – not only of forms and colours involved in the painting but their relationship, their absolute and relative positions on the canvas and their harmony.
In 1925, Kandinsky taught the basic design class for beginners and the course on advanced theory at the Bauhaus. He also conducted painting classes and a workshop in which he augmented his colour theory with new elements of form psychology.
source: www.wassily-kandinsky.org
Clementoni Yellow Red Blue 1000 Piece Wassily Kandinsky Jigsaw Puzzle
Fred Voss designed the basic game for the bauhaus archive museum.
