"Master-craftsmen's houses" Dessau
In 1925 the Bauhaus moved from Weimar to Dessau, where its founder, Walter Gropius, in 1925/26
built three duplex houses alongside his own house for the lecturers who worked at the Bauhaus.
Wassily Kandinsky lived and worked from 1927 to 1932 in the house adjoining that of Paul Klee.
Also, László Moholy-Nagy and Lyonel Feininger lived in a duplex, as did Georg Muche and Oskar
Schlemmer.
Gropius' villa and one of the duplex houses were destroyed in the war, but the others are still there and have a turbulent past behind them, starting with the Nazis' repression of the Bauhaus.
Dividing walls had been inserted and the big studio windows bricked up. Although the houses had
suffered heavy use for decades and were in desperate need of modernization, a large part of the
original structures had been preserved.
With their clear shapes and economical internal layout the Master-Craftsmen's Houses can still be regarded as outstanding examples of the Bauhaus Modern School. This was reason enough for UNESCO to include all of them together into its list of the world's cultural heritage in 1996.
You can find more information about the master-craftsmen's houses in Dessau at www.meisterhaeuser.de and at www.bauhaus-online.de.
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