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The Bauhaus in all its facets

The Bauhaus was a lively school of ideas and a field for experimenting in the free and applied arts, design, architecture and educational methods. Here we present the phases the Bauhaus went through, the places where it based its activities, its teaching, the people behind it and their works.

The Bauhaus at a glance

People

The Bauhaus was the fruit of versatile input from both well-known avant-garde artists and aspiring junior masters, more than 1,250 students from 29 countries and their friends and families. In the “People” section we present the “Who’s Who” of the Bauhaus.

Porträt Walter Gropius, Foto: E. Bieber, ca. 1928

Directors

Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe fundamentally defined the Bauhaus strategy as directors.

Die Bauhausmeister auf dem Dach des Bauhauses, um 1926.

Masters and teachers

Teachers were called “masters” at the Weimar State Bauhaus. They included renowned artists such as Feininger, Kandinsky, Marcks and Klee.

Entspannung auf der Bauhaus-Terrasse, Foto: Ivana Tomljenović, Dessau, 1930.

Students

The creative atmosphere at the Bauhaus was a magnet for young people from over 29 countries. They had one thing in common: they were now Bauhäusler and always would be.

Florence Henri am Bauhaus in Dessau (v.l. El Muche, Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp, Florence Henri, Irene Bayer?) / Foto: unbekannt, 1927.

The Bauhaus entourage

Some of the best-known Bauhaus personalities were neither students nor masters, but spouses, guest students, friends or colleagues working in the Gropius building studio.

Works

From ashtrays to puppets and photograms to tubular steel furniture and balcony access blocks – in the constantly growing encyclopaedia of works, we present selected oeuvres of Bauhauslers. Further information and collections are provided by the Bauhaus institutions in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin.