Bauhaus Dessau
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Bauhaus Dessau, also Bauhaus-Building Dessau, is a building-complex in Dessau-Roßlau. It is considered the pinnacle of pre-war modern design in Europe and originated out of the dissolution of the Weim
The reconstructed Bauhaus-Building
Aerial view (2024)
Atelier-Building Prellerhaus
Bauhaus Dessau
Walter Gropius
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Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. He was a founder of Ba
Bauhaus Dessau
…politicians to reconcile the city's industrial character with its cultural past. The building was constructed between 1925 and 1926 according to plans by Walter Gropius as a school building for the Bauhaus School of Art, Design and Architecture. The building itself and the Masters' Houses that were built in the immediate…
Portrait by Louis Held, c. 1919
Gropius's Monument to the March Dead (1921) was dedicated to the memory of nine workers who died in Weimar resisting the Kapp Putsch.
Modern reconstruction of Gropius's house in Dessau which was destroyed during World War II.
Gropius with Harry Seidler in Sydney, Australia, in 1954