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In what year was the Bauhaus founded?
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- Immediately after the First World War.
- 1919, in Weimar.
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1919 (answers within ±2 count)
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1919, in Weimar under Walter Gropius, moving to Dessau in 1925 and closing under political pressure in 1933. Fourteen years is a remarkably short life for an institution whose curriculum still shapes how design is taught.
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