In fact, the first poster of the new school featured a woodcut by Lyonel Feininger showing an ancient cathedral of which the central tower symbolizes architecture, and the side ones sculpture and painting (Cathedral of Socialism, 1919).
In the founding act Gropius defined the Bauhaus as a “vast system” with “the theoretical activity of an art academy combined with the practical activity of a school of arts and crafts.” In fact, the first poster of the new school featured a woodcut by Lyonel Feininger showing an ancient cathedral of which the central tower symbolizes architecture, and the side ones sculpture and painting (Cathedral of Socialism, 1919). Just as in the building sites of the great Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals architects, sculptors, painters, stonemasons, carpenters, and all sorts of craftsmen worked together, so, only with the cooperation of all professional skills and without pre-eminence of one over the other, could the creation of the modern, democratic work be achieved. The Bauhaus idea was to train artists with various specializations who would conceive a new Gesamtkunstwerk or “total work of art,” of which architecture would be the "complete construction, the final goal of the visual arts."