Task 5

The bauhaus and german modernism

Alfrd Arndt.

Arndt was a German architect and Bauhaus scholar who was born 1896 and lived until 1976. During world war one Arndt was pulled for military duty and worked as a foreman in 1916. After 1919 he studied figure drawing at the Königsberg Art Academy and took painting lessons from painter Robert Budzinski.
In 1921 he joined a youth group that protested against industrialisation in Germany. this was called Wandervogelbewegung.
He studied at the Bauhaus from 1921 to 1927, Bauhaus was a German art school which was revolutionary as it was one of the first that had a crossover between fine arts and craft. It became especially famous from having a new innovating approach to design and how things were produced. This school helped turn design from being just a practical thing to having an aesthetic feel to it at the same time. 
Shortly after graduating from the school he begun teaching as the master of interior design and building at the school in 1930. In 1931 he taught perspective, interior design and illustrative geometry.at the Bauhaus for a year. After this, In 1927 he married Gertrud Arndt who was a photographer who also studied at Bauhaus with him.

Alfred Arndt