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Bauhaus school by Walter Gropius The Bauhaus school, Dessau, Germany, designed by Walter Gropius.

Bauhaus

German school of design
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Staatliches Bauhaus
Date:
1919 - 1933
Areas Of Involvement:
architecture
design
Notable Alumni:
Marianne Brandt
Marcel Breuer
Anni Albers
Josef Albers
On the Web:
A National Trust for Historic Preservation - Brief History of Bauhaus Architecture (Dec. 13, 2024)
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Bauhaus, school of design, architecture, and applied arts that existed in Germany from 1919 to 1933. It was based in Weimar until 1925, Dessau through 1932, and Berlin in its final months. The Bauhaus was founded by the architect Walter Gropius, who combined two schools, the Weimar Academy of Arts and the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts, into what he called the Bauhaus, or “house of building,” a name derived by inverting the German word Hausbau, “building of a house.” Gropius’s “house of building” included the teaching of various crafts, which he saw as allied to architecture, the matrix ...(100 of 819 words)

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