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Bauhaus overview: Dessau and the Nazi Party

Bauhaus overview: Dessau and the Nazi Party

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Bauhaus overview: Dessau and the Nazi Party

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- When Walter Gropius left the Bauhaus in 1928 to focus on his own architectural practice, the effort to separate politics from design also departed. Another blow followed when Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, and Marcel Breuer also left the Bauhaus. Gropius's successor was Hannes Meyer. Meyer criticized the Bauhaus's previous work as formalistic and required that all aesthetic considerations should be excluded. Design was now to have a stronger social basis for people's needs instead of luxury items, and produced only if appropriate to life. The school, however, wasn't all doom and gloom under a rigid regime. In 1929 the Bauhaus travelling exhibition toured Switzerland and Germany, influencing more designers and architects. The Bauhaus Theatre toured Germany and Switzerland with Oskar Schlemmer's Bauhaus Dances. This theatre workshop grew from Schlemmer's interest with the possibilities of figures and their relationship to the space around them. Meyer continued to be a controversial…

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