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Bauhaus Timeline

  • World War I

    World War I

    World War 1, also known as the First World War or the Great War and the War to End All Wars, was a world conflict lasting from 1914 to 1919
  • Johannes Itten

    Johannes Itten

    1919-1923,
    Preliminary Course
    Artist/Shaman
  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles

    Germany and the Allies signed a peace treaty at the end of World War I. The United States, Great Britain, France, and Italy negotiated the treaty at the Peace Conference held in Versailles beginning on January 18, 1919. The German Republic government which replaced the imperial administration was excluded from the deliberations. The treaty created the Covenant of the League of Nations, outlined Germany's disarmament, exacted massive reparation payments from Germany
  • Bauhaus Manifesto

    Bauhaus Manifesto

    Walter Gropius
    Weimar, April 1919
  • Bauhaus Weimar

    Bauhaus Weimar

    Bauhaus Weimar
  • World War I

    WWI Ends
  • Paul Klee

    Paul Klee

    1920-1930
    Master Designer
    Paint Instructor
    Rejected Europeanism
  • Wassily Kandinsky

    Wassily Kandinsky

    1922-1933
    Published Theory:
    On the Spiritual in Art
    (1912)
    Point and Line to Plane
    (1926)
  • Josef Albers

    Josef Albers

    1923-1928
    Master Teacher
    Color Theorist
    Preliminary Courses
    Black Mountain College
    Op-Art
  • László Moholy-Nagy

    László Moholy-Nagy

    1923-1928
    Metal Shop
    Form and Material
    Experimental, Functional Artist
  • Bauhaus Dessau

    Bauhaus Dessau

    1925-1930
  • Mein Kampf

    Mein Kampf

    Meaning "My Struggle," it was the ideological base for the Nazi Party's beliefs and practices.
  • Bauhaus Berlin

    Bauhaus Berlin

    1930-1933
  • Bauhaus Berlin Ends

  • Reichstag

    Reichstag

    /raikhstag/ : The German Parliament. On February 27, 1933, a staged fire burned the Reichstag building. A month later, on March 23, 1933, the Reichstag approved the Enabling Act which gave Hitler unlimited dictatorial power.