Bauhaus

New ideas were close Kandinsky, and he gladly accepts the invitation. In 1922, he headed the Bauhaus workshop of painting. For organization of the training process Gropius gathered in the school the most modern and original artists. By the time of Kandinsky, there had already worked his friends Paul Klee, L.Feininger, as well as O. Schlemmer, G. Marcks, L. Schreyer and G. Muche. The training is conducted in parallel in the art and production workshops - this was the decision of Gropius. All students at first listen to a general introductory course, which reveals the theoretical fundamentals of the art, its formal elements. Then the students familiarize with more detailed materials, methods, tools. On the following courses they study the individual materials (wood, stone, glass, textile) in the creative workshops, and in the end all knowledge are combined in such courses as “Design” and “Construction and engineering skills”.
Kandinsky in the Bauhaus read a few courses: «Analytical drawing», the main objective of which is to teach students to penetrate into the essence of things and understand abstraction; «the Basics of artistic design», which are, in fact, the theory of the design; and the most famous of his course “Colour”. In this course, Kandinsky teaches theory of color from the history of development of various color systems to modern psychology of perception of color. In his training course Kandinsky realizes a radically new approach to teaching about the color, based on the analysis of individual elements - a point, a line, a plane, and examining their relationships. The result of this analysis will be his work ”Point and line to plane”. The creativity Kandinsky’s Weimar period (1923-1925) is under the influence of ideas of suprematism and constructivism, which reign in this time in the Bauhaus. His main work in those years - a monumental “Composition VIII”. But to this period belong such a chamber, almost intimate picture as “Small dream in the red”, written in a gift to his wife.

Despite attempts by the management to make the ideology of the school of adequate political situation, it hasn’t success. Since 1931 a large-scale campaign of right-wing circles begins against Bauhaus, successfully concluded in 1932, when the school was closed, declaring it "a hotbed of bolshevism in culture". Family the Kandinsky’s makes a difficult decision - to leave Germany. They go to Paris, the city which will be the final stage of the creative and the way of life of Kandinsky. For some time the heads of the Bauhaus prolong its existence as a private educational institution in Berlin, but in 1933 the Nazis finally close the school. Many teachers migrate to the United States. In 1937 in Chicago was founded "the New Bauhaus" (Director was L. Mohoy-Nagy), and Gropius and Breuer organized at Harvard University's School of Design.
The program of the Bauhaus had a huge impact on the development of art education and European art. Architects and designers of future generations continued to study the collections of scientific and theoretical articles teachers of the school. The Museum-archive of Bauhaus was founded in 1960, for which, in 1979, was built a special building in Berlin, projected by Gropius. At the present time in Dessau operates the design centre “Bauhaus-Dessau”.