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Germany - 1919 Staatliches Bauhaus  View of the University in Dessau on a postcard dated 1927. © Quittenbaum München, 80 Jahre Bauhaus Design, 10th May 99'  Postcard sized poster of a Bauhaus exhibition in 1923. © Quittenbaum München, 80 Jahre Bauhaus Design, 10th May 99' 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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