Article: The once and future Bauhaus. (two exhibitions of Bauhaus art in Weimar and Dessau, Germany)

Two recent exhibitions, one originating in Weimar and the other in Dessau, highlighted the continuing legacy of Germany's arts-and-crafts cathedral of the modern era.

The 14 years (1919-33) of the Weimar Republic, Germany's first, failed experiment in democracy, also encompass the birth and death of one of this century's great modernist experiments - the Bauhaus school of art, architecture and design. With the recent absorption into the Federal Republic of Germany of the former East German states of Saxony and Thuringia, it is now relatively easy for Western pilgrims to the sites of modern art's triumphs and tragedies to track the northerly journey of this ...

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