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Happy Birthday, Walter Gropius!

"Vivat Gropi!" On 18 May, 1883 the founder and first director of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius, was born. One of the best presents he received from his Bauhaus friends as a farewell from the school is a cascet entitled "the bauhaus at 9. a chronicle".

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David Chipperfield renovates the New National Gallery

from 17/5/2012

The most famous building of the third director of the Bauhaus Mies van der Rohe, the New National Gallery, will be substantially renovated from 2015 onwards. Prestigious London architect Sir David Chipperfield has been signed responsible from the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.

Barbican Highlight III

Accompanying to the exhibition "Bauhaus: Art as Life" at the Barbican Art Gallery, London (UK),  bauhaus-online.de shows some of the highlights on show on a weekly turn. The third highlight is a print by Farkas Molnár from 1923.

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Das Haus des Architekten

from 10/5/2012

The werkbundgalerie in Berlin opens on 11 May, 2012 at 7 pm its new exhibition "Das Haus des Architekten: Hermann Muthesius, Christoph Ingenhoven, Karl-Heinz Schmitz" (The House of the Architect). From 14 May until 22 June, 2012 the exhibition is open to everyone mondays to fridays from 3 to 6 pm.

Barbican moods

Looking at the exhibition "Bauhaus: Art as Life".

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Wilhelm Wagenfeld in Weißwasser

from 9/5/2012

On 11th May, 2012 the exhibition "Wilhelm Wagenfeld in Weißwasser" in the Neue Schloss of Bad Muskau will be opened to the public.

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The Bauhaus Archive Berlin / Museum for Design, the Weimar Classic Foundation and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation want to take a fresh look at the history and impact of the famous school with this website. Detailed historic knowledge in the atlas is coupled with current reports in the magazine. The calendar delivers a large amount of information for Bauhaus connoisseurs and enthusiasts.

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Bauhaus Archive Berlin
The Bauhaus Archive was founded in 1960 as a non-profit organisation and is dedicated to the history and the after-effects of the most significant art school of the 20th century. As both museum and research institute, its main tasks include the collection, presentation and research of the Bauhaus.
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Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
In Dessau-Rosslau, the institution – which was established in 1994 by the federal government, state and city – is dedicated to the preservation of a rich legacy and simultaneously makes contributions to shaping the environment of modern life. With 26,000 objects, the foundation has the second-largest Bauhaus collection in the world.
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Foundation of Weimar Classics
The Bauhaus Museum, an institution of the Weimar Classic Foundation, has been temporarily housed in the art museum on Theaterplatz since 1995. Its entrance incorporates the classicist Kulissenhaus (depot for the court theatre) by Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray. With more than 300 exhibits, it provides an insight into the development of the State Bauhaus at its founding city of Weimar.
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