Bauhaus was a design school founded in 1919 in Germany. Designers and students at the Bauhaus broke with tradition and created a very modernist style. By ignoring precedent and generating a new design philosophy, their primary goal was to integrate art, technology, and craftsmanship. Architecture, furniture design, and typography were among the innovative ideas. They believed that design, like painting and sculpture, should be considered a high art.
In 1925, the Bauhaus school relocated from Weimar to Dessau. The school was relocated to Berlin in 1932, only to be closed down the Nazi regime in 1933. The Nazi party had long opposed Bauhaus, believing it to be closely linked to communism due to the fact that many of the school’s members were Russian.
Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Mies van der Rohe are among the most well-known Bauhaus architects. Lyonel Feininger, Walter Gropius, and Marcel Breuer are three lesser-known but perhaps equally influential architects. The school’s influence is still felt today; many modern buildings, offices, and pieces of furniture are heavily influenced the Bauhaus style.