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2009: 90 Years Bauhaus Tradition

• In 1919 Walter Gropius established the „Staatliche Bauhaus” in Weimar, a classical city in Thuringia, and started a new model of design. It was one of the most important and most influential design schools. In 1925 the Bauhaus school moved to Dessau and was closed down in 1933 by the National socialists. It reopened in 1986 as a center of design.
• Weimar and the surrounding area, as well as Jena and Erfurt will be the center of this “Bauhaus” anniversary in 2009. The central focus of the Weimar events will be an exhibition “Das Bauhaus–klassisch–Das Staatliche Bauhaus 1919-25 und seine Beziehung zum historischen Weimar“ (April-July 2009). (The Bauhaus–classic–the state Bauhaus 1919-25 and its connection to historical Weimar)
• Important artists of the Bauhaus school will be honored, such as its founder Walter Gropius, Lyonel Feininger, Johannes Itten, László Moholy-Nagy, Josef Albers, Paul Klee, Wassiliy Kandinsky and Gerhard Marcks. Exhibitions and events will take place in the Bauhaus Museum, the New Museum Weimar, the Schiller Museum and the Goethe National museum.
• In 2009 the 90th anniversary of the Weimar Republic will also be celebrated.
• For further information see: http://www.bauhaus2009.de/