How The Bauhaus Kept The Nazis at Bay, Until It Couldn’t • Discoverology

How The Bauhaus Kept The Nazis at Bay, Until It Couldn’t

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There are few symbols of Modernist design and architecture more iconic than the Bauhaus building in Dessau. The art school’s brief run in Germany shows not a simple dichotomy, but rather how, to varying degrees of bravery, individuals tried to survive under tyranny.

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