Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919 and was its first director. ... Gropius' design of the Bauhaus School in Dessau was billed as a new architecture. Photo is by Tadashi Okochi.

The office of Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus art and architecture school, in Weimar, Germany, the institution’s first home when it was established in 1919.

2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus School’s move from Weimar to its iconic home in Dessau, Germany, designed by Walter Gropius. To mark the occasion, a programme of exhibitions, ...

The Bauhaus movement needs no introduction; and its importance for architecture, as well as the arts and crafts is indisputable. The German school was founded in 1919 by architect Walter Gropius in ...

The Bauhaus building in Dessau, Germany, designed by Walter Gropius Credit: Heritage Images But Gropius is always unsmiling in these photos, as if standing on his dignity as the boss.

By the time the artistic collective of teachers and students, assembled by architect Walter Gropius left conservative Weimar for Dessau – a small city some 90 minutes southwest of Berlin – in ...

Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany) Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) ... 1919-1933 / Michael Müller -- The successor's disinheritance : the conflict between Hannes Meyer ...

GROPIUS The Man Who Built the Bauhaus By Fiona MacCarthy. Walter Gropius has always seemed like the grayest man of the Bauhaus. ... 1926, was Inauguration Day for the Bauhaus building in Dessau.

Gropius’s most famous architectural design is his Bauhaus building in the school’s second home, Dessau. Daybelge says the design, with its glass-lined walls and iconic signage, remains famous ...

Walter Gropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus By Fiona MacCarthy Harvard University Press List Price: $35.00. Bauhaus Goes West: Modern Art and Design in Britain and America ...

Widely acknowledged as the 20th century’s most influential school of architecture, art, and design, the Staatliches Bauhaus was founded in Weimar by Walter Gropius in 1919 and closed down in ...