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Edward Lucie-Smith, Late Modern: The Visual Arts Since 1945, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976, p. 164. Underneath the dial is a J805.1 manual-winding calibre equipped with 17 jewels and a power reserve that can last for up to 42 hours. Protected by a layer of plexiglass on top, everything from its thin stainless steel structure to its matte silver dial screams Bauhaus and the minimalism it stands for. To complete its look, Junghans pairs this Max Bill piece with a stainless steel mesh bracelet. 2. Nomos Glashutte Tangente Neomatik Midnight Blue (Ref. 177) – 3580 USD Image By: The Watch Company The idea of interdisciplinary work The old Bauhaus workshop building in Weimar Image: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Foto: Nathalie Mohadjer

Edwards, M. Jean (September 2019). "Lessons of the Bauhaus". Journal of Interior Design. 44 (3): 135–140. doi: 10.1111/joid.12158. ISSN 1071-7641. S2CID 201241249. The term Bauhaus was inspired by medieval builder’s huts, which served as gathering places for groups of craftsmen to build cathedrals. However, the Bauhaus had nothing to do with sacred architecture – functionality was at the forefront of the movement. Gropius put it as follows, “Beauty can only arise from the complete harmony of technical function and proportional form.” The well-known motto form follows function accurately depicts a philosophy of the school. Peder Anker (2010). From Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A History of Ecological Design. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-3551-8. He's an award-winning Scandinavian designer, best known for his work with Bang and Olufsen. Minimalism is his speciality. Nordgreen watches marry his design ethos with the brand's ethical stance.At its founding in 1925, Laco was not the proud German brand it is today. In its early years, Laco imported Swiss-made watch movements and housed them in German cases. It was a few years after their founding that Laco started producing their own German-made movements, making their products officially 100% German. The watch movements they produced were so good that another popular German watchmaker, Stowa, started using them in their own watches. Uhrig, Nicole (2020). Zukunftsfähige Perspektiven in der Landschaftsarchitektur für Gartenstädte: City – Country – Life. Wiesbaden: Springer-Verlag. p.113. ISBN 978-3-658-28940-9. Nomos was founded in Glashutte, Saxony two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall. And the stunning Tangente is their most famous watch.

From 1919 to 1922 the school was shaped by the pedagogical and aesthetic ideas of Johannes Itten, who taught the Vorkurs or "preliminary course" that was the introduction to the ideas of the Bauhaus. [17] Itten was heavily influenced in his teaching by the ideas of Franz Cižek and Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel. He was also influenced in respect to aesthetics by the work of the Der Blaue Reiter group in Munich, as well as the work of Austrian Expressionist Oskar Kokoschka. The influence of German Expressionism favoured by Itten was analogous in some ways to the fine arts side of the ongoing debate. This influence culminated with the addition of Der Blaue Reiter founding member Wassily Kandinsky to the faculty and ended when Itten resigned in late 1923. Itten was replaced by the Hungarian designer László Moholy-Nagy, who rewrote the Vorkurs with a leaning towards the New Objectivity favoured by Gropius, which was analogous in some ways to the applied arts side of the debate. Although this shift was an important one, it did not represent a radical break from the past so much as a small step in a broader, more gradual socio-economic movement that had been going on at least since 1907, when van de Velde had argued for a craft basis for design while Hermann Muthesius had begun implementing industrial prototypes. [19] Mechanical Stage Design by Joost Schmidt, 1925 When children living in Weimar in the 1920s did not obey, people said: "If you are not good, then you will be put in the Bauhaus." It was "crazy people" who lived at the art school — who danced noisily through the streets in colorful theater costumes and painted pictures using triangles, circles and squares. a b c d Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., 2009), ISBN 0-19-953294-X, pp. 64–66Wearers can typically find Bauhaus-style timepieces in the catalogs of German watch brands like Nomos Glashutte and Junghans. However, some watchmakers outside of Germany also seek inspiration from the Bauhaus style and implement it into their models. Rather than going through every model in the selection of each brand, it would be more convenient for us to list down 15 of the best Bauhaus watches on the market today. 1. Junghans Max Bill Handaufzug (027/3004.48) – 700 USD Image By: The Watch Company The Art school moves to Dessau, Germany. Gropius designed the building for the new Bauhaus Dessau himself and oversaw the move of the art school. You've probably heard the saying "less is more." This saying comes from architect Mies Van Der Rohe, who was the last director at the Berlin Bauhaus, and an influential teacher at the time. Below, a Herbert Bayer design for a Bauhaus exhibition poster exemplifies experimentation with white space and primary colors coming together to create a minimalist yet vibrant aesthetic. Image Source: Bauhaus Movement on Behance Wassily Kandinsky painting

Recently, this focus has shifted towards local curatorial work, explained Regina Bittner, director of the academy. "With the Bauhaus buildings and the new museum, which will open in the anniversary year, we are attempting to make references from the Bauhaus legacy to the present and to incorporate objects from our own collection into design science." From the very beginning, the company began to produce Bauhaus inspired pieces. Each designed by Susanne Gunther. Since 2005 the range has been powered by their own in-house movements. A real achievement .The fascination with Bauhaus The opening of the Bauhaus lab on Ludwig Konrad Wachsmann Image: Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau/Foto: Yakob Willmington-Lu, 2018

Speaking of art Morris had said that it “ should meet the needs of society and that there should be no distinction between form and function.” That's now a cliche often mentioned by watch brands, but it is still the basis for outstanding designs. Yellow-Red-Blue is a famous painting by Wassily Kandinsky that depicts experimentation with shape and color that was definitive of the movement. Image Source: Wassily-Kandinsky.org Oskar Schlemmer costume designsBut there is some colour. The yellow secondhand adds enough to catch the eye. It doesn't overwhelm the plain dial or compromise the Bauhaus aesthetic. They're both very similar to the earlier Stowa watches. Now viewed as a luxury brand, Nomos are more desirable to the average watch enthusiast. But that luxury label does come with a higher price.