People of the Bauhaus
The directors, masters, workshop heads, and students who made the Bauhaus what it actually was — and how the cast changed with every phase.
Read article Germany, 1919 to 1933 The Bauhaus.
The Bauhaus.
From Weimar to the world.
The people, the buildings, the objects, and what happened after the school closed in 1933.
Three cities, three directors, fourteen years.
The Bauhaus opened in Weimar in 1919 and was forced to close in Berlin in 1933 — three cities, three directors, shifting politics.
- Weimar, 1919–25. Gropius founded the school on the premise that craft and fine art were the same discipline. The workshops began here.
- Dessau, 1925–32. The most productive phase. The building, the masters' houses, the first Bauhaus-designed products in commercial production.
- Berlin, 1932–33. Mies ran a private school for eleven months before the Nazis forced it to close. The dispersal that followed reshaped architecture on three continents.
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Alma Siedhoff-Buscher
Bauhaus student who designed the children's room for the Haus am Horn and the Ship Building Game — objects that remain among the clearest demonstrations of Bauhaus principles applied directly to everyday domestic life.
Read profileAnni Albers
Weaver, textile designer, and the Bauhaus graduate who proved that thread could be an architectural material — not decoration, but structure.
Read profileArieh Sharon
Bauhaus-trained architect who took Hannes Meyer's social functionalism to Palestine and spent the following decades building the social housing, hospitals, and national infrastructure of a new state.
Read profileErnst Neufert
Early Bauhaus student and Gropius assistant who channelled the school's functionalist premises into the world's most widely used architectural reference handbook.
Read profileGeorg Muche
Painter and Form Master of the weaving workshop whose most lasting contribution was a building he designed as a non-architect — the Haus am Horn, the school's first complete demonstration of total design.
Read profileGerhard Marcks
Founding master and Form Master of the ceramics workshop at Dornburg — five years in a rural satellite studio that represent the Bauhaus's most sustained investment in handcraft as an equal partner to fine art.
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