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Gropius was not necessarily against Expressionism, and in fact himself in the same 1919 pamphlet proclaiming this " new guild of craftsmen, without the class snobbery ," described " painting and sculpture rising to heaven out of the hands of a million craftsmen, the crystal symbol of the new faith of the future.

" By 1923 however, Gropius was no longer evoking images of soaring Romanesque cathedrals and the craft-driven aesthetic of the " Völkisch movement ", instead declaring " we want an architecture adapted to our world of machines, radios and fast cars.

" Gropius argued that a new period of history had begun with the end of the war.

He wanted to create a new architectural style to reflect this new era.

His style in architecture and consumer goods was to be functional, cheap and consistent with mass production.

To these ends, Gropius wanted to reunite art and craft to arrive at high-end functional products with artistic pretensions.

The Bauhaus issued a magazine called Bauhaus and a series of books called " Bauhausbücher ".