Bauhaus Dessau
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The Bauhaus Building in Dessau and the Meisterhäuser (Master´s Houses)
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Bauhaus in Dessau
Meisterhäuser
The most influential force in the 20th century was the Bauhaus. Dessau became a mecca for modern artists when the Bauhaus moved here in 1925. Founded in 1919 by the architect Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus school aimd to unite art with everyday function, from doorknobs and radiators to the layout of entire districts and apartment blocks. The movement attracted some the era’s most talented artists including Gropius, Klee, Kandinsky, and Feininger, who, with their radical ideas, peppered the Dessau cityscape with Bauhaus structures. Gropius built the Cubist headquarters for of the Institute for Design here. Today this house is more than a school or a museum, it is much rather a center for design, teaching, and research on architecture.
Only a short walk from the Bauhaus Building, a hallmark of modern architecture, are the Meisterhäuser (Masters’ Houses); this estate originally consisted of three sets of semi-detached houses for senior Bauhaus staff including Klee, Kandinsky, Muche, Schlemmer, Feininger, Moholy-Nagy and the director Gropius. The Masters‘ Houses are an outstanding example of Gropius’ »white Modernism«, among their outstanding features being the individual interior colouring.
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