The Bauhaus movement aimed to reunite fine art and functional design by creating
practical objects that have artistic elements. The idea that art should meet the needs of society
and that there should be no distinction between form and function was also a belief of the
Constructivist movement. The founder of the Bauhaus school, Walter Gropius, “wanted to
design, new functional architecture for the modern industrial world” (Eskilson 229). These ideas
are similar to the Constructivist movement and their mission to expand modern art beyond
traditional forms. Additionally, both movements favored art as a practice directed toward social
change or serve a social purpose. In contrast the pieces of the Constructivist movement tend to
have more political charged message than the pieces of the Bauhaus movement.
In comparison to the Futuristic movement the Bauhaus movement is similar in the use
of simple geometric shapes and primary color pallets. Additionally, both these movements
integrated art and societal issues as Marinetti states in his Futurist Manifesto “courage, audacity,
and revolt will be essential elements in our poetry”. Both these movements let societal change
and the industrial world guide their work. Differing from Bauhaus the Futuristic movement was
heavily integrated with the fascist government and militarism. Whereas the Bauhaus movement
was criticized by the German government and was eventually shut down by the Nazi regime.
