The founder of the Bauhaus was a man by the name of Walter Gropius. He was a widely famous architect and was only thirty-six at the time. He was born in May of 1883; his grandfather and father were both successful architects of their generation. Gropius was a cavalry officer in the First World War, and he managed to change his view on how the world we live in is shaped (Whitford 33). The first Bauhaus school was in Weimar Germany, two other schools were created after that. They were located in Dessau, and Berlin. Bauhaus had the industrial revolution t

o thank because this brought on new machines, materials and technology that were very helpful in creating this new environment (32).

Bauhaus did not have teachers or pupils but instead liked to refer to them as ‘individuals who followed examples of the guilds masters, journeyman, and appetencies to learn by doing under the supervision of persons of more experience’ (Frank Whiteford 11). The school was very much hands on and used workshops as classrooms. Bauhaus tried to accomplish three primary goals. The first one was to stop the arts from being isolated and instead combine all the skills such as crafters, painters, and sculptors, together to form new projects and ideas. The second objective was to elevate the status of the crafts to the status that the fine arts had. The final goal was to establish ‘Constant-contact with leaders of crafts and industries of the county’ (Whiteford 11). These goals were only partially accomplished because of the new war. The Nazis thought that the Bauhaus was considered to be ‘decadent’ and ‘Bolshevistic’ art, and it was forced to be shut down (9). Bolshevistic was something that would support the socialist revolution in Russia. When the Bauhaus was closed many of the architects that were associated with it left Germany and went to other places where it may be more accepted such as the United States (12).

So what type of students attended this school? The students that attended the school were perceived by the townspeople as dirty, lazy, promiscuous, and being cocky about themselves. When the school was first opened many of the students were matured men that usually had military experience, and many were still in shell shock. Others were boys who learned how to paint and sculpt at the academy before and continued with their previous teachers (Reagan 2). Also women came to take up weaving. To get into the school th

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