90 years ago, the Bauhaus, a famous design school, was opened in Dessau

Desav (Germany) - The famous avant-garde art and design school Bauhaus was opened in the German city of Desav 90 years ago, on December 4, 1926. Its main idea - the unity of art under the guidance of architecture and a close relationship with craftsmanship - continues to influence the thinking of architects and designers to this day. However, Bauhaus was established as early as 1919 in Weimar, where the school was founded by architect Walter Gropius.

Its environment became famous for creative liberalism and progressiveness, which often became the target of attacks from conservative politicians and critics. Nearly a quarter of Bauhaus students came from abroad, and half were women. From Desav (the complex of buildings is on the UNESCO World Heritage list), the school moved to Berlin, where it had to close in 1933 after the rise of the Nazis, who considered the style to be too "Jewish-Marxist."

One of the directors of Bauhaus was, for example, architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and artists Vasily Kandinsky, Oskar Schlemmer, and László Moholy-Nagy also served here as educators.