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Bauhaus Beginnings
On view at the Getty Research Institute through October 13, 2019
See a colorful and surprising reexamination of this landmark institution’s founding principles, featuring course exercises, teaching aids and notes, and rare prints, drawings, and photographs.

PODCAST: Teaching and Learning at the Bauhaus
Members of the project team for the Getty Research Institute’s two Bauhaus-related exhibitions, Bauhaus Beginnings and Bauhaus: Building the New Artist, discuss the founding principles, pedagogy, and educational experience of the school with James Cuno, president of the J. Paul Getty Trust.

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100 Years of Bauhaus
An initiative dedicated to a rediscovery of the Bauhaus heritage and its present and future significance through exhibitions, events programing, a magazine, travel information, and more.

Bauhaus Museum Weimar
One of the largest and most significant cultural institutions in Germany, with more than 20 museums, palaces, historic houses and parks, as well as literary and art collections, a number of which are World Heritage sites.

bauhaus-archiv / museum für gestaltung
Having built up the world’s largest collection of Bauhaus-related materials, this institution studies and presents the history and influence of the school. The site’s new building will open on the occasion of the centenary of the Bauhaus’s founding.

Bauhaus Dessau
Designed by Walter Gropius and financed by the city, the school’s second location opened in 1926. Every year some 100,000 visitors from all over the world come to Dessau to view the Bauhaus buildings and to research, work and become creatively involved as scientists, architects, designers, artists or students.

The Bauhaus and Harvard
Mounted in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the school’s founding, this exhibition presents nearly 200 works by 74 artists, drawn almost entirely from the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s extensive Bauhaus collection.