Article: Image school: as the Michael Hoppen Gallery puts its collection of Bauhaus photographs on show, Clare Dowdy finds out why the movement is still so influential.(The Week Ahead)

Anyone who has admired a tubular steel frame chair has enjoyed the influence of the Bauhaus. It may have only lasted 15 years as a school, but as a movement, it is still having an effect in the design world today.

From metal, furniture, weaving, typography, photography, wall-painting and sculpture workshops, as well as departments for architecture, exhibition techniques and graphic design, the Bauhaus Art School was the ultimate in multidisciplinary teaching.

Walter Gropius, who set up the avant-garde school in Weimar in 1919, said at the time: 'Fine arts and the crafts were not fundamentally different activities, but two varieties of the same thing.'

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