COLLABORATION of ART AND DESIGN with INDUSTRY in TEXTILES: BAUHAUS WEAVING WORKSHOP
TEKSTİLDE SANAT ve TASARIMIN ENDÜSTRİ ile BULUŞMASI: BAUHAUS DOKUMA ATÖLYESİ

Author : Semra GÜR ÜSTÜNER
Number of pages : 235-252

Abstract

After the Industrial Revolution in England, Arts and Crafts, which is an art/design movement promoting art-craft unity and rejecting the machine, was developed under the leadership of William Morris. This movement had led to the birth of design movements like Art Nouveau and Jugendstil in Europe. In Germany in 1919, the Bauhaus School implemented an interdisciplinary training program intended for industrial production, adding machinery to the arts and crafts movement. The school transferred the changing plastic language of the 20th century to designs with the principle of ‘Form follows function’ under the leadership of the artists and architects in the cadre, in the training given in the workshops by the master-apprentice relation. The ‘Weaving Workshop’, which had existed since the beginning of the Bauhaus school, is it’s significance for textile design history. In Bauhaus, weaving was taken not only as an artistic expression tool but also a function of functionality with new materials and new technologies as the basic element of textile. Founded in the toughest period of the 20th century, Bauhaus has a leading role in the existence of today’s textile design with its aesthetic language, its quest for experimentality and with its functionality it has questioned.

Keywords

Bauhaus, Weaving workshop, Textile design, Weaving, Printing, 20th century

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