The Bauhaus school, in which some of the leading figures of the time took part as teachers, determined an influential artistic movement that redefined the aesthetics and functionality of arts and crafts, founding the new contemporary design and a striking architectural style, both in Europe and the United States.
The founder and first director was the architect Walter Adolph Gropius (Berlin, 1883 - Boston, 1969), his successor in 1928 Hannes Meyer (Basel, 1889 - Lugano, 1954), who was followed from 1930 until its closure in 1933 by Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe (Aachen, 1886 - Chicago, 1969), who together with Gropius was one of the most important and influential architects of the 20th century. The Bauhaus school, in which some of the leading figures of the time took part as teachers, determined an influential artistic movement that redefined the aesthetics and functionality of arts and crafts, founding the new contemporary design and a striking architectural style, both in Europe and the United States. The school was first based in Weimar from 1919 to 1925, then in Dessau until 1932 and finally in Berlin in its final months and before the Nazi regime in 1933 imposed its end, considering it too open to international trends.