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Phases

The Bauhaus was only active for 14 years: as the “State Bauhaus” in Weimar, as a “school of design” in Dessau and as a private education institute in Berlin. It evolved out of the arts and crafts movement and art school reforms. Its ideas had an impact well beyond the school itself, its locations and its time.

The origins

The period that led to the Bauhaus was very much influenced by approaches to education reform and by the pre-war arts and crafts movement.

Gebäude der Hochschule für Bildende Kunst in Weimar, Architekt: Henry van de Velde / Foto: Louis Held, um 1911.

Bauhaus Weimar

In Weimar the Bauhaus was already a magnet for the European avant-garde because it was cosmopolitan in spirit and open to international artistic diversity.

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Dessau

The Bauhaus experienced its heyday in Dessau. Here the “State Bauhaus” became a “School of Design”.

Das Bauhausgebäude in Dessau von Nordwesten, Architektur: Walter Gropius / Foto: Lucia Moholy, 1926.

Berlin

Nazi repression and drastic cutbacks in funding made it almost impossible to work at the Bauhaus in Berlin.

Das Gebäude des Bauhauses in der Birkbuschstraße in Berlin-Steglitz, Foto: Howard Dearstyne, 1932.

The aftermath

Teachers, students and networks carried Bauhaus ideas well beyond the places where the school operated and the years of its existence.

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