Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 2: Modern Era (1850–1949)
1925
The Bauhaus Moves to the Iconic Dessau Campus
Moving from Weimar to Dessau, this Walter Gropius designed building for the Bauhaus was envisioned as a “Gesamtkunstwerk” (comprehensive artwork). “The building contained many features that later became hallmarks of modernist architecture, including steel-frame construction, a glass curtain wall, and an asymmetrical, pinwheel plan,” according to the Met.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
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- Ideas
- architecture, Gesamtkunstwerk, Modernism
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- glass curtain wall, steel-frame construction
- People
- Walter Gropius
- Organisations
- Bauhaus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Places
- Dessau, Germany, Weimar
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