BAUHAUS-MUSEUM WEIMAR

1919-1925: six years to revolutionize the world of architecture and design. The influence is still palpable today, all over the world, from the simple office chair to the UN buildings in New York. In April 1919, Weimar saw the birth of the Bauhaus school, under the direction of an architect, Walter Gropius, who, it seems, could not draw. The idea? Make architecture and everyday objects more functional. Weimar, a follower of classicism, still under the influence of Schiller and Goethe, saw these artists with communist, anarchist and return to nature ideas arrive under a more than suspicious eye. A cultural shock, experimentation and audacity will be the key words of the Bauhaus public school, which will give birth to a real architectural revolution. In the aftermath of the First World War, Germany was bled to death, ruined and on its knees. The artists of the Bauhaus wanted to build functional and cheap objects and houses. In 1925, the subsidies of the Bauhaus school were cut by the ruling right-wing nationalists. The school, driven out, then moved to the city of Dessau.

In 2019, the opening of this new museum marks the centenary of the Bauhaus. This large building gathers all the objects of daily life, the fruit of these revolutionary ideas. Very large rooms evoke the history of this artistic movement. These objects, which one would think were designed yesterday, fascinate.