Arhitektura i Urbanizam (Jan 2019)
Bauhaus and its reflection on forming of the artistic practices in the ex-Yugoslav cultural region
Abstract
Marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of Bauhaus, one of the leading and most influential modernist art schools, which, despite its short period of activity (1919-1933), paved the way for the new artistic, theoretical and social toponyms through its educational system, this text collects and exposes the specic and complex echoes created by designers, artists and architects from the Yugoslav cultural areas. The subject of this paper is related to a group of students from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians (from 1929, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) who studied architecture, textile design, photography and the ne arts at the Bauhaus in the period 1924-1932. Education at the Bauhaus, political context, as well as work in various prestigious architectural bureaus or individual design practices were of utmost importance in forming the ideological frameworks of the Yugoslav Bauhaus students' production. In other words, the text seeks to illustrate the complex relationships between the individual poetics of the Yugoslav students at the Bauhaus and the historical moment in which they acted. The aim of the research is to determine the cultural and social positions of their work through relating the aesthetic reading of artistic practices, concise review of the socio-historical context and individual cases of Yugoslav students. The research methodology is framed by the existing sources and interpretations.
