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The Bauhaus: The Idea Behind the School and Its Educational Programme | Das Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung

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The Bauhaus only existed for a total of 14 years, from 1919 to 1933, but it is recognised around the world as one of the 20th century’s most important schools of architecture, design and art. Repeatedly forced to start over again for political reasons, the school and its training programme continued to develop. It was decisively shaped by its three directors: Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

The architect Walter Gropius was the founding director of the Bauhaus, which opened in Weimar in April 1919. In order to promote the Bauhaus and attract students from all over Germany, a leaflet was designed explaining the programme and the idea of the school. Lyonel Feininger designed a woodcut of a cathedral for the cover of this so-called founding manifesto. In the Middle Ages, large and magnificent churches were built by building guilds in which craftsmen of all the trades and arts worked together on an equal footing. The cathedral on the Bauhaus manifesto is thus a symbol of the…

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