Berlin 2003 Photo Gallery / 5 a1 berlin bauhaus perspect 054-1_edited (c) David J. and Linda A. Cornfield 11/23/2003

The Bauhaus School was founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius and in its day was revolutionary. Its goal was to embrace technology in the fine and applied arts, instead of rejecting it. Modernism was spread by students fleeing the Nazis.