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Article: The other Bauhaus. (exhibition at the Bauhaus-Archiv Museum in Berlin)

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February 1, 1997
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The Bauhaus story continues to fascinate 60 years after the school's dissolution. The Bauhaus started as a state school in Weimar but after a 1924 local election win for the conservative right wing it was given notice. Gropius unsuccessfully fought for a private Bauhaus school to remain in Weimar but he did at least manage to retain sole rights to the name Bauhaus and all design work carried out in the workshops. The pure uncompromising Bauhaus spirit, with its emphasis on art and design moved on to its Gropius-designed Dessau school.

Back in Weimar the government of Thuringia invited Otto Bartning, a Berlin-based architect friend of Gropius, to become director of a ...

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