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There’s a great article at the International Herald Tribune about the icon of modernism that is The Bauhaus School. I won’t copy snippets because you can read it by yourself, but I’ll give you my brief. It influenced art, architecture, interior design, industrial design, graphic design and typography profoundly but it also shook other areas such as politics and women rights to the core. It was established in 1919 and designed by Walter Gropius in a conservative town of Weimar. What Gropius wanted and succeeded at was to create “the new building of the future to embrace architecture, sculpture and painting in one unity.” The school was moved from Weinmar to Dessau where it got its cult building. From the locals point of view the students were too bohemian. From the woman rights point of view it was sexist for limiting women students to weaving and ceramics workshops. From the Nazis point of view the Bauhaus was a ”hotbed of Bolshevism, despite Gropius’s ban on political activity”. What is more, one of the schools teacher, Johannes Itten, insisted on students to wear flowing robes and adopt vegetarianism.

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