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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. Dessau: Bauhaus College
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Bauhaus

German school of design
Also known as: Staatliches Bauhaus
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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...

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