In 1919, Walter Gropius opened the StaatIiche Bauhaus Weimar, which was to become one of the most influential schooIs of art, design and architecture from Dessau to Chicago. Artists such as Kandinsky, Itten, Feiniger, Klee, Moholy-Nagy and Schlemmer taught there and, together with directors Gropius and Mies van der Rohe, led the Bauhaus to embody reform, experimentation and the avant-garde. Through artworks, archivaI records and interviews, this fiIm deIves into the exciting story of the school and its protagonists. |