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Bauhaus Architectural movement is 100 years 2019.

Bauhaus Architectural movement is 100 years 2019.

“We want an architecture adapted to our world of machines, radios and fast cars”. That was Walter Gropius’ statement regarding the reason behind forming the Bauhaus University. After the ending of the first world war during the “German revolution” when the Weimar Republic was founded and Weimar was the center of the German Enlightenment, the Bauhaus University was founded by Walter Gropius on April 12 1919. The University was founded by merging two art schools established by the Grand Duke…

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Weimar Republic

Weimar Republic

Weimar in the state of Thüringia in Germany was the place, where after the First World War, the first German Democratic constitution was signed. This was also where the Weimar Republic period in German history (1918-1933) was formed. It was the home of the period in art called the German Enlightenment and also the home of two of the main characters in the Weimar Classicism literary genre – Goethe and Schiller. Weimar was at one point home to such artists as Franz List…

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