BAUHAUS MUSEUM

1919-1925: six years to revolutionize the world of architecture and design. The influence is still palpable today, all over the world, from simple office chairs to the UN buildings in New York. In April 1919, Weimar saw the birth of the Bauhaus school, under the leadership of an architect, Walter Gropius, who, it seems, couldn't draw. The idea? To make architecture and everyday objects more functional. Classicist Weimar, still under the influence of Schiller and Goethe, saw these artists with their communist, anarchist, back-to-nature ideas arrive under a more than suspicious eye. Culture shock, experimentation and daring were the watchwords of the Bauhaus public school, which gave rise to a veritable architectural revolution. In the aftermath of the First World War, Germany was bloodless, ruined and on its knees. The Bauhaus artists wanted to build cheap, functional objects and houses. In 1925, the Bauhaus School's subsidies were cut off by the right-wing nationalists in power. The school was driven out and moved to the town of Dessau.

The opening of the new museum in 2019 marks the centenary of the Bauhaus. This large building brings together all the everyday objects that were the fruit of these revolutionary ideas. Extensive galleries evoke the history of this artistic movement. These objects, which look as if they were designed yesterday, still fascinate us today with their modernity.