- Circles, squares and black bars
- Red, yellow and blue
- Beside a reading chair
- Layered arches with orange circle
- Bauhaus colour-blocking with arches
- Beneath a white shelf
- Black waves crossing an orange sun
- Bauhaus lines in orange and black
- Complements a white interior
- Nested circles in a spiral
- Red, orange and pink
- Near a writing table
- Angular black and white shapes
- Bauhaus design in neutral shades
- In a minimalist hallway
- Black rooftops above Bauhaus lettering
- Teal, black and white geometry
- For a modern hallway
- Angular architectural forms
- Bauhaus Exhibition 1923 lettering
- Pairs with timber furniture
- Repeated red arches
- White ground with black type
- Suited to a quiet study
- Graduated grid of rounded forms
- Orange, red, black and white
- Adds order to a room
- Six nested line motifs
- Black and ochre on beige
- Pairs with pale timber
- Circles, semicircles and stripes
- Blue, orange and black forms
- In a modern lounge
- Black eye with yellow ring
- Blue panel with black rays
- Adds energy to a lounge
- Striped circles and Bauhaus lettering
- Red, black and grey stripes
- Near a clean-lined desk
- Three circles with black curves
- Black, yellow and white geometry
- Crisp geometric balance
- Colourful shapes, stripes and type
- Pink, blue, yellow and black
- Works in a creative studio
- Haus Bau lettering and stripes
- Cream, teal, red and ochre
- By a reading nook
- Flowing black stripes on cream
- High-contrast optical design
- Beside a reading chair
- Yellow sun behind curved stripes
- Yellow, brown and black palette
- Above a wooden console
- Vertical stripes with Bauhaus lettering
- Pink, purple, blue and black
- Hanging in a hallway
- Rows of circles and half-circles
- Coral, red and ochre tones
- Hallway placement in modern interiors
- Geometric rooster in profile
- Blue, pink and teal geometry
- For a colourful nursery
- Five rows of flower motifs
- Primary and pastel colours
- Pairs with pale blue
- Rounded tiles in six rows
- Pink, blue, teal and grey
- Over a side table
- Black semicircles and vertical stripes
- Monochrome minimalist layout
- Near a pale timber desk
- Layered circles and rectangles
- Multicoloured Bauhaus geometry
- Above a slim sideboard
- Wavy multicoloured bands
- Bauhaus-inspired flowing stripes
- Pairs with ochre and teal
- Red circle, black diagonal stripe
- Red, pink, black and blue
- A lively studio companion
- Pink circle, eye and bars
- Pink, blue and black Bauhaus
- Playful retro character
- Rounded green blocks, white circle
- Green and white Bauhaus geometry
- Gift for geometry lovers
- Bauhaus lettering with tapering stripes
- Tapered stripes in mixed hues
- In a reading nook
- Circles, semicircles and horizontal stripes
- Pink, teal, black and cream
- Fits a creative study
- Pink circle over blue section
- Pink, blue and black dots
- Gift for pattern lovers
- Red circle over black stripes
- Red, black and beige tones
- In a restful bedroom
- Pink panels with white circle
- Minimal Bauhaus lettering
- Against a white wall
- Pink sun over black dots
- Bauhaus pink and beige palette
- Gift for a design lover
- Stripes over dusty pink rectangle
- Beige, black and dusty pink
- Fits a modern reading corner
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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