THE BAUHAUS SCHOOL

In order to accomplish his idea of arts union, Gropius had his first new plan of action by merging the two Weimar art schools into one ambitious new school, Bauhaus in 1919 and he became the first director. After the Bauhaus formation as a new school in design and architecture, German politic at the same time was in crisis and turmoil gave affect to the future of the school. Bauhaus in Weimar only lasted until 1925 when Gropius announced the closure of the school. It was caused by the political struggle between Social Democrats Party and Nationalist Party. The leftist Social Democrats Party was Bauhaus patron whos funding all the school maintenance. By losing its power to the Nationalist Party, that will be mean no funding to the school for the new party was anti and considered Bauhaus as a school of leftists and running leftist programmed.However, the Social Democrats Party in Dessau was still in control had offered Gropius a piece of land in their authority to rebuild the Bauhaus school with its own facilities. Only in a year the new building was ready to be used but in 1932, again, Bauhaus was force to leave their building and moved to Berlin.Bauhaus was finally closed by force of the Nazi regime in 1933. The Naziwho take control of German politic at that time were holding fascist doctrine and anti to the leftists including the Bauhaus education programmed. The Nazi were opposing the Bauhaus programmed and considered the school as the front for communists.In 1937, American Association of Arts and Industries took an initiative to reform Bauhaus school in Chicago, United States and invited La¡ Moholy-Nagy to become the director. They used and developed the Bauhaus curriculum base on the German Bauhaus and employed some of the former Bauhaus staff, many of whom had left Germany due to the increasingly hostile political climate towards progressive art. However, Bauhaus school in Chicago only lasted a year.