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Article: 90 years on, Bauhaus becomes crowd magnet in Berlin.
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- Daily News Egypt (Egypt)
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- August 9, 2009
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Ninety years after it began revolutionizing design, art and architecture and six decades after the Nazis banned it, Germany's famed Bauhaus movement is luring huge crowds to a new show in Berlin.
With prized pieces on loan from New York's Museum of Modern Art, the avant-garde movement's biggest-ever exhibition, "Bauhaus -- A Conceptual Model," showcases the famed school and its huge impact on modern aesthetics.
Since its opening last month, the anxiously-awaited show has drawn more than 20,000 people --"a little more than we expected," one of the exhibition's organizers, Klaus Boesl, told AFP.
The Bauhaus legacy can be seen in everything from ...