The Bauhaus Artist-Teacher: Walter Gropius’s Philosophy of Art Education
- Author
- G. Daichendt
- Year
- 2010
- Type
- journal article
- Category
- Teoría y Diseño
This article examines Walter Gropius's philosophy of art education at the Bauhaus, where he combined a craft school and a fine arts academy into one institution meant to unite imaginative design with technical skill. It describes the Bauhaus model of the "artist-teacher," an instructor who draws on personal artistic practice to shape how they teach.
Daichendt's article examines the educational philosophy Walter Gropius built into the Bauhaus, which he founded between 1919 and 1928 by merging the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts with the Weimar Academy of Fine Arts. Gropius's aim was to unite imaginative, artistic design with technical proficiency in a single course of training. The article centers on what it calls the Bauhaus's unifying pedagogy: the idea of the "artist-teacher," an instructor whose own artistic discipline directly informs how they teach and what they consider important in art and design education, a model Daichendt presents as a lasting contribution of the Bauhaus to art education more broadly.
Credits: Daichendt, G. (2010). The Bauhaus Artist-Teacher: Walter Gropius's Philosophy of Art Education. Teaching Artist Journal, 8(3), 157–164. http://doi.org/10.1080/15411796.2010.486748
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