Bauhaus

In Our Time: Culture

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4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Bauhaus which began in 1919 in Weimar, Germany, as a school for arts and crafts combined, and went on to be famous around the world. Under its first director, Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus moved to Dessau and extended its range to architecture and became associated with a series of white, angular, flat-roofed buildings reproduced from Shanghai to Chicago, aimed for modern living. The school closed after only 14 years while at a third location, Berlin, under pressure from the Nazis, yet its students and teachers continued to spread its ethos in exile, making it even more influential.

The image above is of the Bauhaus Building, Dessau, designed by Gropius and built in 1925-6

With

Robin Schuldenfrei Tangen Reader in 20th Century Modernism at The Courtauld Institute of Art

Alan Powers History Leader at the London School of Architecture

And

Michael White Professor of the History of Art at the University of York

Producer: Simon Tillotson

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0:56.4	and went on to be famous around the world.
0:59.6	Under its first director, Walter Gropius, Bowhaus extended this to architecture, designing a series of white
1:05.8	angular flat roof buildings reproduced from Shanghai to Chicago aimed for modern living.
1:11.9	And while the school itself closed after only 14 years
1:14.5	under pressure from the Nazis, its students and teachers continue to spread its
1:18.8	ethos in exile, making it even more influential. With me to discuss Bowhouser Robin Schullen-Fry, Tengen, Reader in 20th century Modernism
1:28.0	at the Court Hill Institute of Art, Alan Powers, history leader at the London School of Architecture and Michael White, Professor of the History of Art at the University of York.
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