In the United States, Josef Albers became an art teacher at Black Mountain College in Asheville, László Moholy-Nagy in 1937 founded the New Bauhaus in Chicago, where Mies van der Rohe also moved and became director of the Armor Institute’s architecture department, while Gropius at Harvard became a professor at the Graduate School of Design.
In the following decades, after World War II, the influence of the Bauhaus would shift along with its former members, many of whom were forced to flee Europe. In the United States, Josef Albers became an art teacher at Black Mountain College in Asheville, László Moholy-Nagy in 1937 founded the New Bauhaus in Chicago, where Mies van der Rohe also moved and became director of the Armor Institute’s architecture department, while Gropius at Harvard became a professor at the Graduate School of Design. The spirit of the Bauhuas also survived in innumerable reproductions and quotations of the furniture and fittings, objects and graphics produced during the fourteen years he worked in Germany.