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Image:Bauhaus.JPG Bauhaus is the common term for the Staatliches Bauhaus, an art and architecture school in Germany that operated from 1919 to 1933, and for the approach to design that it developed and taught. The most natural meaning for its name (related to the German verb for "build") is Architecture House. Bauhaus style became one of the most influential currents in Modernist architecture.
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Bauhaus is the common term for the Staatliches Bauhaus, an art and architecture school in Germany that operated from 1919 to 1933 in Germany and in the United States from 1937-1938. The most natural meaning for its name (related to the German verb for "build") is Architecture House. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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The „Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar" is created from the grand-ducal Hochschule für Bildende Kunst and the Kunstgewerbeschule. Its initiator and first head is Walter Gropius. Participants at the very first Meisterratssitzung (Council Meeting of Masters) are, among others, Lyonel Feininger, Johannes Itten, and Gerhard Marcks. In April the programmatic Bauhaus Manifesto is heing published.
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The pioneering architect Walter Gropius combined both schools into the Staatliches Bauhaus on April 1, 1919 to start the Bauhaus movement which spread around the world. In 1919, Weimar had become the center of new social and political ideas when the city was chosen as the place for the writing of the constitution of the new Republic proclaimed by the Social Democrats on Nov. 9, 1918.
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