Joost Schmidt’s now iconic poster for the 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition shows a cross comprised of circles and squares, and includes the Bauhaus logo designed by Oskar Schlemmer. Produced for a competition, the poster had to incorporate the logo, exhibition information, venue details and the date.
Contents.Studies Schmidt studied art at the Grand-Ducal Saxon Academy of Fine Art in Weimar, before becoming a student at the Bauhaus School from 1919–1925, training in the wood-carving workshop. He became the master student of Max Thedy and received his diploma in painting in the winter semester of 1913/1914. Teaching Joost Schmidt taught at the school from 1925–1932; head of the sculpture workshop from 1928-1930. He was also head of the Advertising, Typography, Printing, and associated Photography department from 1928 to 1932. In the years of 1929-1930, he taught life and figure drawing classes for upper division work.Family Joost was one of three children, and endured a difficult upbringing. He pursued his work as a graphic designer despite much resistance from the Nazis. After receiving his diploma in 1914 in painting, he served in the military and was briefly a prisoner of war until he returned to his work in Germany in 1918.
In 1925, he married the Bauhaus student Helene Nonne.References.
. By the time of the first major exhibition of all Bauhaus products, held in Weimar in 1923, the catalogue showed the influences of De Stijl movement and Russian constructivism. The Bauhaus was forced to move to Dessau. The workshop was first under the direction of Herbert Bayer and then Joost Schmidt took over and changed the course to title, 'Commercial art.' This very modern appearance signaled the beginning of a stable alliance between the'New Typography'and the Bauhaus.
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy changed the direction of typography at the school. Moholy-Nagy prevailed in developing an asymmetrical typography that was both clear and convincing. What happened?. School closed:German authorities considered it not only educationally unsound, but politically subversive as well. Once Hitler came to power, the Nazis launched an aggressive campaign against Modernist art and the school was finally forced to close.
Moved to US: Most of the faculty emigrated to the US where a semblance of the school ended up in Chicago. Today: American art schools have also rediscovered the Bauhaus school. The Master Craftsman Program at Florida State University bases its artistic philosophy on Bauhaus theory and practice., (1932)by Iwao YamawakiWhile the school was largely apolitical,the Nazi cultural policy-makerssaw the modern art and design as fundamentallyas Marxist-Communistand 'un-German'Some other outstanding graphic artists of the times were lecturers at the Bauhaus:and more.