Germany - 1919 Staatliches Bauhaus
Bauhaus was founded in Weimar as an amalgamation of the Weimar Academy of Fine Arts and the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts that closed in 1915.

The ideal striven for under the direction of Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe was the combination of a training in fine arts and practical crafts aiming at serving a Gesamtkunstwerk joining applied arts and architecture in a visionary manner.

In practice, a new kind of employee for industry and crafts was to be trained, with a command of both technology and form.

Until it was disbanded in 1933 under the Nazi cultural bureaucracy, Bauhaus served the contemporary development of housing - from simple utensils to a completed residence.

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View of the University in Dessau on a postcard dated 1927.Photo: Quittenbaum München, 80 Jahre Bauhaus Design, 10th May 1999


Postcard sized poster of a Bauhaus exhibition in 1923.Photo: Quittenbaum München, 80 Jahre Bauhaus Design, 10th May 1999