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Bauhaus Masters’ Houses

Bauhaus Masters’ Houses

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Bauhaus Masters’ Houses

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Location: Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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Peter

June 10, 2023

Cycling

Worth seeing ensemble of master houses.

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JR56

March 10, 2023

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When the Bauhaus relocated from Weimar to Dessau in 1925, Mayor Fritz Hesse not only assured Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius of funding for a new school building, but also promised him a housing development for the Bauhaus teachers, who had called themselves masters since their Weimar days.

Just one year later, the Bauhaus building and the Masters' Houses were completed and
became symbols of a design and educational revolution.

To this day, they represent white modernism par excellence worldwide.

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Andreas Bikefan

February 15, 2022

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A must - and of course you have to go inside. Parallel to the Bauhaus building, Walter Gropius was commissioned by the city of Dessau to build three identical semi-detached …

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