Bauhaus emerged from an arts movement, not AEG — a lesson for AI's new aesthetic
tobias_rees · x · 2026-11-03
Responding to Sam Altman's "new Renaissance" and Collison/Cowen's question about the 21st century's missing aesthetic, tobiasrees argues the Bauhaus sprang from the Muthesius/Deutscher Werkbund movement — a small heretical group pushing arts to embrace industrial production — with AEG and Peter Behrens merely an early proof point that contemporaneous artists disliked. He links this to AI's civilization-scale rupture: movements precede companies.
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