The Bauhaus was a German school of art, design and architecture, founded in Weimar by the architect Walter Gropius, who merged the grand-ducal academy of fine arts with a school of arts and crafts. Its aim was to unite art and craft and to design objects suited to an industrial age, and its teaching started with a preliminary course in basic design. The school included artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy among its masters. It moved to Dessau in 1925, into a building designed by Gropius, and then to Berlin, and it was closed under pressure from the Nazis. Its teachers emigrated, and its ideas shaped modern architecture and design around the world.
Before and after
- 25 December 1918Birth of Anwar Sadat
- from 31 December 1918 to 5 January 1919Battles for Vilnius
- 1919Founding of International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- 1919Founding of Leeds United F.C.
- from 1919 to 1933Founding of Bauhaus
- 1919Founding of Baku State University
- 1919Paris Peace Conference
- 1919Founding of Save the Children
- 1919Establishment of Grand Canyon National Park
More in Society, economy & sport
- 16 October 1923Founding of The Walt Disney Company
- from 3 August 1936 to 9 August 1936Jesse Owens wins four gold medals in Berlin
- November 1938Kristallnacht
- 1940Katyn massacre
- 15 May 1940Founding of McDonald's
- 1941Rise of Vietnamese Independence League
The era
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