Nazis Permanently Close the Bauhaus

The Nazis permanently closed Bauhaus due to their opposition to its modernist and internationalist principles, which they saw as incompatible with their vision of a “pure” and traditional German culture. Many Bauhaus artists and designers were persecuted or forced to flee Germany as a result with many relocating to the United States, where Josef and Anni Albers joined Black Mountain College in North Carolina and Moholy-Nagy opened the New Bauhaus in Chicago.