The Bauhaus design school, which transformed the way people around the world live, work and dream of the
future, marks its centenary this week with the launch of a politically charged German museum.
As Bauhaus, the most influential design school of the 20th century, marks its 100th birthday, examples of its keep-it-simple elegance can still be found across the globe.
Bauhaus celebrated 100 years this Wednesday. We explore how the school of art is just as groundbreaking as it was a century ago, with its ideas still shaping functional design today.
Beginning in Berlin Wednesday, organizations across Germany are hosting events and exhibitions to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus art school. The event programme spans the entire year and will be, much like the strategy of founder Walter Gropius, all-encompassing.
From spiral staircases to curving chairs, the creative yet practical designs of Bauhaus are one of a kind. Next year, the Bauhaus will celebrate 100 years since its founding in Germany.
As the summer holidays approach, The Local is touring <b>Germany's UNESCO World Heritage Sites</b>. Today we turn our attention to the Bauhaus movement and its sites in Dessau and Weimar
Ninety years after it began revolutionising design, and six decades after the Nazis banned it, Germany's famed Bauhaus movement is luring huge crowds to a new show in Berlin.
Germany needs to rethink its relationship to the architecture of its formerly communist eastern half, head of famed Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Philipp Oswalt said on Tuesday.
Nine decades after Walter Gropius founded his revolutionary Bauhaus academy, dozens of exhibitions across Germany are celebrating a movement that embodied much more than simply aesthetics. Celeste Sunderland investigates.
A major retrospective of artworks by Wassily Kandinsky kicks off in Munich on Saturday as part of a world tour almost as peripatetic as the Russian-born modernist artist himself.
<b>Whimsical plans to make depressed eastern Germany economically viable abound, writes AFP's Emsie Ferreira. A fake tropical paradise has already gone up near Berlin and a gigantic pyramid could be next.</b>
