BAUHAUS

In its short lifetime, the Bauhaus was the most advanced school for architecture and applied arts. Not surprisingly, it became more influential after its premature death by Nazi decree, if not the epitome of avant-garde esthetics well into the 1950s. Its teachers included Walter Gropius (1883–1969), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , Oskar Schlemmer , Herbert Bayer (1900), and L. Moholy-Nagy, who disseminated its ideas in subsequent teaching and writings. Among the central...