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Photo: Spyrosdrakopoulos, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.Step into the revolutionary design school that bridged the gap between fine art and functional craft. Test your knowledge on the visionaries, iconic designs, and lasting legacy of the Bauhaus!
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Walter Gropius founded the legendary school in Weimar in 1919. It later relocated to Dessau in 1925 due to political shifts, and then briefly to Berlin before its closure. Today, the original Weimar buildings are recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Photo: Carl Ha, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Tel Aviv's White City has over 4,000 buildings constructed in the Bauhaus style. Many were designed in the 1930s by German Jewish architects who fled Nazi persecution and adapted the minimalist European style to the warm Mediterranean climate.
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The Wagenfeld WG 24 lamp features a circular glass base, a glass shaft, and a sleek nickel-plated metal body. Though designed to look like a mass-produced industrial object, it was actually assembled by hand in the school's workshop.
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Bayer designed the Universal typeface in 1925, completely dropping uppercase letters. He argued that because people do not speak in capital letters, writing them was an unnecessary waste of time and printing resources.
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Johannes Itten created the foundational course to teach color theory and material properties. He was known for his unconventional teaching style, which included starting classes with breathing exercises and gymnastics.
Photo: Photograph: Paula Stockmar (as mentioned at https://bauhaus.daserste.de/credits), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe took over leadership in 1930 and tried to preserve the school as a private institution in Berlin. He was a pioneer of modernist architecture famous for his minimalist design motto 'less is more.'
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Gunta Stolzl was the only female master at the Bauhaus, leading the weaving department. Under her guidance, the workshop shifted from handcrafts to industrial textile design, making it the school's most profitable department.
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American-German painter Lyonel Feininger created the expressive woodcut depicting a 'Cathedral of Socialism.' He was the very first faculty member appointed by Walter Gropius and led the printmaking workshop.
Photo: Hugo Erfurth, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet featured dancers in heavy, geometric costumes that transformed them into living sculptures. The performance explored how human figures interact with mathematical space.
Photo: Oskar Schlemmer, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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Walter Gropius designed the Dessau facility with a massive glass curtain wall that wrapped around the workshop wing. This innovative structure made the walls seem weightless and flooded the studios with clean, natural daylight.
Photo: A.Savin, Wikimedia Commons, FAL.
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