* 1919 – The Staatliches Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.

His experimental method had been influenced by his meetings with various members of the Bauhaus design school, especially László Moholy-Nagy, whom he first met in 1930.

, commonly known simply as Bauhaus, was a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught.

Beyond the Bauhaus, many other significant German-speaking architects in the 1920s responded to the same aesthetic issues and material possibilities as the school.

Vkhutemas, the Russian state art and technical school founded in 1920 in Moscow, has been compared to Bauhaus.

Founded a year after the Bauhaus school, Vkhutemas has close parallels to the German Bauhaus in its intent, organization and scope.

Vkhutemas was a larger school than the Bauhaus, but it was less publicised outside the Soviet Union and consequently, is less familiar to the West.

The early intention was for the Bauhaus to be a combined architecture school, crafts school, and academy of the arts.

From 1919 to 1922 the school was shaped by the pedagogical and aesthetic ideas of Johannes Itten, who taught the Vorkurs or ' preliminary course ' that was the introduction to the ideas of the Bauhaus.

Weimar was in the German state of Thuringia, and the Bauhaus school received state support from the Social Democrat-controlled Thuringian state government.

One condition placed on the Bauhaus in this new political environment was the exhibition of work undertaken at the school.

On 26 December 1924 the Bauhaus issued a press release and setting the closure of the school for the end of March 1925.

After the Bauhaus moved to Dessau, a school of industrial design with teachers and staff less antagonistic to the conservative political regime remained in Weimar.

However, shortly after receiving a letter permitting the opening of the Bauhaus, Mies and the other faculty agreed to voluntarily shut down the school.

The paradox of the early Bauhaus was that, although its manifesto proclaimed that the ultimate aim of all creative activity was building, the school did not offer classes in architecture until 1927.

So the built output of Bauhaus architecture in these years is the output of Gropius: the Sommerfeld house in Berlin, the Otte house in Berlin, the Auerbach house in Jena, and the competition design for the Chicago Tribune Tower, which brought the school much attention.

The emigration of the German Bauhaus school of design to Chicago in 1937 brought a " mass-produced " minimalism to America ; sparking a wild fire of " modern " architecture and design.

The Nazi regime had condemned the Bauhaus school, and its leaders left Germany.

Whale and makeup artist Jack Pierce may also have been influenced by the Bauhaus school of design.

He joined the avant-garde Bauhaus design school as their director of architecture, adopting and developing their functionalist application of simple geometric forms in the design of useful objects.

By 1933, however, the continued operation of the school was untenable ( it was raided by the Gestapo in April ), and in July of that year, Mies and the faculty voted to close the Bauhaus.

* 1883 – Walter Gropius, German architect, founded the Bauhaus school ( d. 1969 )

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, one of the founders of modern architecture and the last director of the Bauhaus during its period in Dessau and Berlin was born in Aachen as well.

In spite of its name, and the fact that its founder was an architect, the Bauhaus did not have an architecture department during the first years of its existence.

Such influences can be overstated: Gropius himself did not share these radical views, and said that Bauhaus was entirely apolitical.

Thus the Bauhaus style, also known as the International Style, was marked by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of an object or a building and its design.

However, the most important influence on Bauhaus was modernism, a cultural movement whose origins lay as far back as the 1880s, and which had already made its presence felt in Germany before the World War, despite the prevailing conservatism.

The design innovations commonly associated with Gropius and the Bauhaus — the radically simplified forms, the rationality and functionality, and the idea that mass-production was reconcilable with the individual artistic spirit — were already partly developed in Germany before the Bauhaus was founded.

The Bauhaus was founded at a time when the German zeitgeist had turned from emotional Expressionism to the matter-of-fact New Objectivity.

In 1919, after delays caused by the destruction of World War I and a lengthy debate over who should head the institution and the socio-economic meanings of a reconciliation of the fine arts and the applied arts ( an issue which remained a defining one throughout the school's existence ), Gropius was made the director of a new institution integrating the two called the Bauhaus.

The Nazi movement, from nearly the start, denounced the Bauhaus for its " degenerate art ", and the Nazi regime was determined to crack down on what it saw as the foreign, probably Jewish influences of " cosmopolitan modernism.

" Despite Gropius's protestations that as a war veteran and a patriot his work had no subversive political intent, the Berlin Bauhaus was pressured to close in April 1933.

When Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Germany in 1919, Feininger was his first faculty appointment, and became the master artist in charge of the printmaking workshop.

Bauhaus Dessau, built from 1925 to 1926 to a design by Walter Gropius founded modern architecture.

** The Bauhaus architectural movement is founded in Weimar, Germany.

The city was also the birthplace of the Bauhaus movement, founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, with artists Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, and Lyonel Feininger teaching in Weimar's Bauhaus School.

Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus School and movement in Weimar in 1919.

The Institute of Design was founded in 1937 as the New Bauhaus: Chicago School of Design by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.

For instance the Deutscher Werkbund, founded in 1907 and a precursor to the Bauhaus, was a state-sponsored effort to integrate traditional crafts and industrial mass-production techniques, to put Germany on a competitive footing with England and the United States.

* IIT Institute of Design ( Chicago ), founded by Moholy-Nagy as New Bauhaus in 1937

In 1953, Inge Aicher-Scholl, Otl Aicher and Max Bill founded the Ulm School of Design, ( German: Hochschule für Gestaltung-HfG Ulm ), a design school in the tradition of the Bauhaus, which was however closed in 1968.

In 1960 he founded the Situationist Bauhaus based at the farm Drakabygget with Jorn.

" In 1984, Tones on Tail was disbanded, and Ash founded Love and Rockets in 1985 with Haskins and David J, also of Bauhaus.

In Alba, Piedmont, Italy, with Asger Jorn and Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio he founded the Laboratory of immaginiste experiences as part of the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus ( IMIB ).

Refugee artists introduced Bauhaus ( the White City of Tel Aviv has the highest concentration of Bauhaus architecture in the world ) and founded the Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra.

* Bauhaus founded in Weimar by Walter Gropius.

The Bauhaus, founded in Weimar in 1919, may serve as a model .” ( Heinrich Klotz )

In 1919, when Gropius founded the Bauhaus, Marcks was one of the first three faculty members to be hired, along with Feininger and Johannes Itten.