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Also Known As Staatliches Bauhaus
Date 1919 - 1933
Areas Of Involvement Architecture • design
Notable Alumni Marianne Brandt • Marcel Breuer • Anni Albers • Josef Albers
Related People Paul Klee • Walter Gropius • Ludwig Mies van der Rohe • Oskar Schlemmer • Marianne Brandt • Florence Henri • László Moholy-Nagy • Gerhard Marcks • Lyonel Feininger • Ludwig Hilberseimer

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The Bauhaus Dessau building designed by Walter Gropius features a modernist facade with large glass windows and the word Bauhaus in bold letters on a vertical gray tower.
Walter Gropius, seated with arms crossed, wearing a dark suit and high-collared shirt, looking to the side in an interior setting, circa 1915.
Anni Albers: wall hanging
Catalog cover by El Lissitzky in Bauhaus Asymmetric style, featuring large, bold black letters and numbers arranged at varying angles with Russian and German text.
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Hear about the Bauhaus art school that existed in Germany and its most iconic design the cantilevered chair by Breuer
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