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Bauhaus Archive, Museum for Design, Berlin

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Bauhaus-Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin

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The Bauhaus, the most significant German school of art and architecture of the 20th century, was founded in Weimar in 1919. Walter Gropius, one of the founders of the now legendary school, designed a museum building in the 1960s for the Bauhaus Archive that was to be constructed in Darmstadt, then home to the Archive which had been founded there in 1960. However, the Archive moved from Darmstadt to West Berlin in 1971. After all, Berlin had been the last active site of the historic Bauhaus, and in 1979 the new building was ceremoniously opened. The Berlin museum, which had only the general plan and silhouette in common with the Gropius design of 1964, was criticized negatively in the press, but the collection was mentioned in a positive way. In the following years the unique silhouette of the building has made it one of Berlin's landmarks. In 1997 the museum building was officially placed under landmark protection.

Hollywood used the museum’s exterior as a futuristic location in the science-fiction film Aeon Flux (2005) starring Charlize Theron.

Important Bauhaus People: Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Lyonel Feiniger, Paul Klee, Vassily Kandinsky, und Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.

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Chronik des Bauhauses
A brief Bauhaus chronology (1919-1997) in German and English, with Web links.

Das Bauhaus in Dessau
Photos: Exterior and interior views of the original Bauhaus building in Dessau.

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