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Why HOCHTIEF sponsors the Bauhaus in particular
Pioneer of modern architecture
1919, the year in which Walter Gropius established the Bauhaus in Weimar and
with it the "Modern School", is regarded as the birth year of modern architecture.
Gropius' aim was to create buildings as "holistic works of art".
In addition to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer, many representatives of modern art taught at the Bauhaus: Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, László Moholy-Nagy, and Oskar Schlemmer.
In Dessau, where the Bauhaus moved in 1925, their groundbreaking Bauhaus
architecture was put into effect with greater diversity than in any other city in
the world. In addition to the Bauhaus building itself there were also the four
"Master-craftsmen's houses", duplexes in which the Bauhaus lecturers lived;
they are still regarded as outstanding examples of the Bauhaus Modern School.
These buildings were defined as part of the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage as
long ago as 1996.
