100 years Bauhaus - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 2019 - 70 Euro Cent

The Bauhaus is considered one of the most influential architectural and design schools of the 20th century. Founded in 1919 in Weimar and founded in Dessau from 1925, the school brought together outstanding architects, artists, craftsmen and designers. Its director, the architect Walter Gropius, had the intention to create a new architecture, in which sculpture, painting, arts and crafts are merged into a single entity. Since 1996, the Bauhaus sites in Dessau and Weimar have been listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In Dessau, the Bauhaus experienced its heyday as a "university for design" with revolutionary designs, buildings and teaching methods. In 1926, the inauguration of the designed by Walter Gropius Bauhaus building. At the same time, the strictly functional master houses were created as living and working creations. With the seizure of power by the National Socialists, the Bauhaus dissolved in 1933 forced. Many graduates and teachers were persecuted and had to leave Germany. Nevertheless, the ideas of the Bauhaus spread all over the world.