Meyer, a dedicated Marxist, nevertheless brought additional esteem to the Bauhaus by developing the architecture and design training departments. His political views were increasingly unpopular within the school and in Dessau, and he was forced to resign in 1930. The leadership was then given to German architect, L. Mies Van der Rohe. In order to cut costs and remain viable, Van der Rohe was compelled to reduce the educational program from a ?university? approach to that of a vocational/architectural school. Mies Van der Rohe was a world-renowned Modern architect, and he worked very hard to transform the school into a non-political, viable institution. He was not to succeed, unfortunately.
Throughout the 1920?s, the Nationalist Socialist (Nazi) movement had been gaining strength, and among its targets of hate were artists, intellectuals, and communists.
Their opposition to the Bauhaus and all it represented was vocal and insistent. In 1931, the Nazis gained control of the Dessau city parliament, and it saw the Bauhaus as a haven for Jews, Bolsheviks and cosmopolitan "non-German" viewpoints. The school was forced to close in September, 1932. Much of the building designed by Gropius was destroyed by the Nazis. Although an attempt to reopen was made, by April 1933, the Bauhaus was no more.
In 1937, in the wake of the Nazis' rise to power, the stars of the Bauhaus migrated to the United States, where they were welcomed with open arms. Gropius was made head of the school of architecture at Harvard. Moholy-Nagy opened the New Bauhaus, which evolved into the Chicago Institute of Design, and Mies van der Rohe, who had become the head of the Bauhaus in 1930, was installed as dean of architecture at the Armour Institute in Chicago.
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Aug 28, 1999 8:29 PM
for searching out these links. I enjoyed working my way through them, which of course led me off on other paths to other links on other subjects! I started answering this post one hour ago, and am jus ...
-- posted by bici
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Aug 28, 1999 2:48 AM
Hi again Barbara
Sorry that the Bauhaus / Der Blaue Reiter link was in German Language only.
To correct this I did a search - and here it should be included some English sites about Blaue Reiter ...
-- posted by Arnvid
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Aug 23, 1999 10:49 PM
researching these articles, and sometimes get carried away with writing about historical context - worrying that my readers don't want to know quite so much! These articles have been for Events, so ar ...
-- posted by bici
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Aug 23, 1999 7:03 AM
Barbara, I must tell you that I have learned a great deal from your articles related to proper names, movements, furniture periods etc. of which most folks would not hear in a lifetime.
Strange, as ...
-- posted by Dubh_Sidhe
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Aug 23, 1999 3:59 AM
Different from Morris - oh yes the Bauhaus was. What I liked very much with your article Barbara, was that you did not give short cuts and gave a presentation of Bauhaus as a fixed segment (as it’s of ...
-- posted by Arnvid
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