- Large orange circle and stripes
- Black stripes on beige
- Warm retro character
- Overlapping blue and brown circles
- Flat blue, pink and brown
- For a modern bedroom
- Eye motif within geometric forms
- Bauhaus geometry in primary colours
- For a creative workspace
- Orange semicircle with dotted grid
- Black, orange and beige
- Works above a sideboard
- White circles amid flowing lines
- Black ground with white linework
- Designed for a study
- White dot grid with cut-outs
- Bauhaus type beneath pattern
- Desk-side display
- White circles and waisted shapes
- Bauhaus typography and geometry
- Clean visual rhythm
- Two stylised black eyes
- Black and white Bauhaus type
- Under a picture light
- Rounded shapes across colour panels
- Orange, yellow, blue and pink
- Suited to a children's room
- An eye among rounded shapes
- Bauhaus shapes in blue, orange, red
- Suits a lively workspace
- Semicircles and sweeping curves
- Pink, red and orange hues
- By a clean-lined desk
- Stacked semicircles and blocks
- Rust, scarlet and ochre
- Lively exhibition character
- Bauhaus lettering with geometric forms
- Orange, teal, mustard and charcoal
- Measured graphic rhythm
- Semicircles beneath Bauhaus lettering
- Green, purple and white
- Beside a reading chair
- Bauhaus lettering and curved shapes
- Rust, ochre and charcoal
- Suited to a creative studio
- Stacked circles and Bauhaus lettering
- Red, orange and yellow palette
- Living room colour note
- Blue eye beneath orange lines
- Orange, blue and white Bauhaus
- In a hallway setting
- Repeating concentric circles
- Black and white linework
- Hangs neatly in hallways
- Two white eyes and lettering
- Bauhaus lettering in monochrome
- Display in a creative workspace
- Red circles on wavy stripes
- Black, red and beige
- Made for a modern lounge
- Dense black dot matrix
- Bauhaus dot-matrix styling
- Made for a hallway
- Black circles and pinched forms
- Bauhaus black-and-white layout
- In a minimalist workspace
- Black dots beside looping stripes
- Clean monochrome stripework
- Quietly measured presence
- Eye between two coloured circles
- Beige, orange and blue
- Beside a pale console
- Overlapping teal and orange circles
- Beige, teal and orange palette
- Ideal for a workspace
- Blue and yellow circles, striped arches
- Bauhaus black, blue and yellow
- Beside natural wood furniture
- Bauhaus text above fading stripes
- Teal, sage and beige
- Complements oak furniture
- Overlapping semicircles with Bauhaus lettering
- Black, red and peach
- Against a soft white wall
- Red curved shapes in rows
- Bauhaus red and pink pattern
- Retro 1920s character
- Black dots and organic shapes
- Bauhaus Exhibition 1923 lettering
- Refined modernist presence
- Pink and orange diagonal blocks
- Warm pink, orange and cream
- At home in living rooms
- Three overlapping coloured circles
- Teal, cream and orange palette
- Retro feel for hallways
- Black curves with orange circles
- Mid-century linework
- Above a compact console
- Six red shapes and lettering
- Red, white and black palette
- By a hallway console
- Three pairs of stylised eyes
- Orange ground, blue and red
- Brightens a creative workspace
- Blue circle and black stripes
- Blue, black and white Bauhaus
- Complements light oak
Collection guide
A closer look at Bauhaus Posters: Art Prints Collection
Explore the story, styling ideas and practical answers behind this collection.
Collection guide
The Bauhaus lasted fourteen years and changed what design looks like for the century after it. These Bauhaus art prints work in that language - primary colour, circle, square and triangle, type as a structural element rather than a label.
Where the style comes from
Walter Gropius founded the school in Weimar in 1919 on a simple principle: art and craft should not be separate disciplines, and a chair, a building and a poster should all be designed with the same rigour. The school moved to Dessau in 1925, into the glass-and-steel building that became its emblem, then to Berlin, and closed under Nazi pressure in 1933. Its teachers scattered across Europe and America and took the method with them.
The visual signature came largely from the teaching: Kandinsky's colour theory, Itten's contrast exercises, Albers on how one colour changes another. The result is work built from a small vocabulary - three primaries plus black and white, three shapes, hard geometry - which is exactly why it still looks current.
What makes a print read as Bauhaus
Flat colour with no shading. Shapes that meet cleanly rather than overlapping softly. Asymmetry that is clearly deliberate, usually built on a grid you can sense but not see. And restraint - Bauhaus artwork rarely uses more than four colours, which is what stops it feeling busy even when the composition is bold.
That discipline makes these prints unusually easy to hang. They sit well in a plain modern room, they pair with mid-century furniture, and a set of two or three in the same palette reads as one composition.
Where they work
Offices, studios and hallways take Bauhaus prints particularly well, because the geometry reads as considered rather than decorative. In a living room, one large piece above a sofa or sideboard does more than a grouping. Primary red and yellow lift a room with cool light; the black, white and grey end of the collection suits a room that already has strong colour in the furniture.
Start with these
- Golden Dawn - warm ochre geometry, the easiest way in.
- Bauhaus Blueprint - structural lines in blue and black.
- Bauhaus Cubes - stacked forms for a pair or a set of three.
- Bauhaus Calm II - the quietest of the collection.
Sizes and framing
Geometry rewards scale, so larger formats usually read better. Mark the outside dimensions on your wall with paper or removable tape before ordering and check it from where you usually sit. Match any frame to the exact print size, as similar-looking metric and inch formats are not interchangeable. Plain black or natural wood suits this work; ornate frames fight it. We offer framing too, so get in touch for options and prices.
See the wall art size guide to compare formats, plus delivery information and returns and replacements.
Read more
On the school and the people who ran it: who started the Bauhaus.
Related collections
- Abstract Art Prints - the wider collection this sits inside.
- Mid-Century Modern Wall Art - what the Bauhaus emigrés influenced next.
- Black and White Art Prints - the same discipline without the primaries.
- Office Wall Art - geometric prints for a working room.
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