Introducing Dessau
The ‘built manifesto of Bauhaus ideas’, Dessau was the epicentre of the Modernist movement. Crucially, it wasn’t just home to the 20th century’s most influential design school, the Bauhaus, it was also the first place Walter Gropius and his cronies were actually allowed to practise their architectural principles. As a result, it still boasts some of their earliest buildings.
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After being hounded out of Weimar in 1925 by right-wing conservatives, Gropius and colleagues – including the painters Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky – shifted reluctantly to industrial Dessau. However, after erecting their radical, purpose-built school in 1926, they went on to enjoy their most creative period here, and the block-faced logo ‘Bauhaus Dessau’ soon won them a place in history.
In 1932, the Bauhaus spent its last year in Berlin, but having refurbished buildings left to rot during the GDR period, Dessau is the true keeper of the flame.
Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
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