Bauhaus Designer

The masters and students of the Bauhaus founded in Weimar in 1919 set themselves the goal of abolishing the separation between art and production by going back to craft as a basis of all artistic production and creating objects and spaces for a more humane society in the future through exemplary composition.
Under its founder and first director Walter Gropius (1883-1969), in 1923 the Bauhaus implemented a move towards industry in an inner review process. The exhibition opening under the new main theme of "Art and Technology- a new entity" presented the entire spectrum of the Bauhaus work. One was able to gain an idea of future housing options through the "House at the Horn".
Upon pressure from conservative circles the means for the Bauhaus were cut so drastically in 1924 that it had to find a new place of activity. In a phase of economic upturn, the Bauhaus developed into a communally funded institution of higher education for design with its move to Dessau. Almost all of the master instructors followed the school in its move to Dessau. Former students took on the direction of the workshops as young master instructors. From 1926 to 1932, celebrated works of art and architecture as well as influential design compositions were created in Dessau.
Marked by the constant fights concerning the continued existence of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius stepped down from his function as director on April 1st, 1928. His successor was the Swiss architect Hannes Meyer (1889-1954). His work aimed at a "harmonious extension of society". Through the orientation towards cost effective industrial mass production, products were to be made affordable for large portions of the population. In spite of his success, Hannes Meyer's Marxist orientation became problematic for city officials in the precarious domestic political situation as of 1929, and he was fired in 1930.
Under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) the Bauhaus developed into a type of technical institution of higher education for architecture with art and workshop departments doing the preliminary work as of 1930. After the National socialists won the election, the Bauhaus was banished from Dessau in 1932. In Berlin, where the school had moved to, only a brief period of renewal remained. Under the pressure of the National socialists, the Bauhaus dissolved on its own in 1933.