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Laura Muir

A fresh look at how Bauhaus teachers and artists brought their influential pedagogy and practice from Germany to the United States.

Founded by architect Walter Gropius (18831969) in 1919, the Bauhaus was the 20th centurys most influential school of art, architecture, and design. After the school was shuttered under pressure from the Nazis in 1933, many Bauhaus artists brought their innovative practices and teaching methods to the United States. Gropius himself accepted a position at Harvard, where he would help establish a collection of Bauhaus material that has since grown to more than 30,000 objectsthe largest such collection outside Germany. Harvard in turn became an unofficial center for the Bauhaus in America. Written by established and emerging voices in the field, the scholarship presented here expands on the special link between the two institution