Founded in Weimar in 1919, relocated to Dessau in 1925 and closed in Berlin under pressure from the Nazis in 1933, the Bauhaus school of design only existed for a total of 14 years.
Despite this, the influence of the Bauhaus continues right down to the present day all over the world. With this aesthetic understanding of architecture, Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919. The combination of life, craft and art under one roof became the credo of the art school. Walter Gropius wanted his buildings to stand there, bare, and radiate from within: modern, geometric, bright.
Other distinguished teachers who worked here included Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Oskar Schlemmer, to name but a few.
The Bauhaus Archiv collects art pieces, items, documents and literature which relate to the Bauhaus School.