TheBauhaus was a design school that operated from 1919 to 1933 inGermany. It is widely regarded as the most influential art school of the 20th century. It promotedmodernism. It is most well known for teaching painting, photography, advertising, weaving, architecture and the design of furniture and household products. The work that it produced and its teaching methods had a world-wide influence on art, design, photography, architecture and art education.[1]
It was formally called the "Staatliches Bauhaus" from 1919 to 1932 because it was state funded in that period. From 1919 to 1925 it was inWeimar, in the state ofThuringia and from 1926 to 1932 it was inDessau, in the state ofSachsen-Anhalt. It operated as privately funded school inBerlin from the end of 1932 until April 1933.[2]
