The Bauhaus was one of the most prestigious schools of architecture, art and design of the twentieth century. Founded in 1919 by German architect Walter Gropius, initially worked in the city of Weimar, from 1925 to 1932, in Dessau, and then in Berlin, which was closed a year later by the Nazi regime. Among its principles were the integration of the expressions of man as the fine arts, decoration and graphic design, industrial, architectural and building a constructive and functional aesthetic that responds to the needs of modern industry. His teachers based their lessons in the ongoing investigation of the ways in all fields, based on rationalism, harmony and lack of ornamentation. Among the school teachers were the artists Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Johannes Itten and Mies van der Rohe.
Among other disciplines, were Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Photography, Dance, Music and Cinema.
When the Nazis closed the Bauhaus, the majority of its members settled in the United States, where they founded the New Bauhaus, which had as its director Lászió Moholy-Nagy.