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Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau
| Site number: | 729 |
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| Type of site: | Cultural | |
| Date: | 1919-1933 | |
| Date of Inscription: | 1996 | |
| Location: | Europe, Germany, States of Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt) and Thuringia (Thüringen) | |
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| Description: | The Bauhaus School (1919-1933), which was initially based in Weimar and then in Dessau, reformed architectural and aesthetic notions and practices. The school's professors - Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Wassily Kandinsky - erected and decorated buildings that unleashed the Modern Movement, which in turn fashioned much of the 20th century architecture. --WHMNet paraphrase from the description at WHC Site, where additional information is available. | |
| The school was founded by Walter Gropius at the conservative city of Weimar in 1919 as a merger of the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts and the Weimar Academy of Fine Arts. His opening manifesto proclaimed "to create a new guild of craftsmen, without the class distinctions which raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist". --Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. | ||
| Source: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/729 | |
| Reference: | 1. UNESCO World Heritage Center, Site Page. | |