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Going to Towns--Bauhaus: Images


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Akbar's transformation of the Bauhaus Foundation was a call to arms in the quiet world of researchers, collectors, and connoisseurs.

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Restoration of the Bauhaus building in Dessau began in 1996 (the work continues today), and the institution once again boasts old-school furniture like a reproduction of a Gropius-designed desk, below left.

     

     


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Students at Omar Akbar's Bauhaus Kolleg, right, work in the shadow of Gropius and his legendary group, shown on the roof of the Bauhaus Dessau building in 1926, opposite.

     

New scholarship has shown the Bauhaus to have been a conflict- ridden organization that was as often marked by a cult-like atmosphere, infighting, and politics as by revolutionary teaching methods
     


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