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...1920s, the Bauhaus was under steady pressure from the conservative government of Thuringia, which funded the school but regarded it as a left-wing, bohemian swindle. When the provincial legislature stopped paying faculty salaries in 1925, the Bauhaus relocated to the more welcoming industrial city of Dessau, where it eventually occupied its famously forward-looking new building designed by Gropius. But a few years later, he stepped down as director in frustration over continuing pressure from right-wing enemies of his school...
When the Nazis came to power in Dessau, the Bauhaus moved again, this time to Berlin under the directorship of none other than Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. He did what he could to appease the Nazis, forbidding left-wing student gatherings and producing exhibitions of what he hoped would be seen as apolitical abstract work, but it was no use. In 1933, with Hitler firmly in power, Mies arrived one morning at the converted factory where the school was housed to find it surrounded by black-uniformed Gestapo. Soon after, he shut it down for good and made...
Missouri starter Erik Dessau (5-1) got the start in favor of as many as four other probable Tigers starters, and earned the win with five strong innings, allowing four runs—only one was earned—and striking out three...
Missouri starter Erik Dessau (5-1) got the start in favor of as many as four other probable Tigers starters, and earned the win with five strong innings, allowing four runs—only one was earned—and striking out three...
...made drawings and watercolors, sometimes six or seven a day--a volubility that worried him because he feared people would think he was thoughtlessly cranking them out. All his working life he also taught students, notably at the famed Bauhaus (in Weimar, and later in Dessau), where he quietly considered some of the other teachers to be nuts, as indeed some were. Teaching was not a sideline for Klee; it was hugely important to him because it enabled him to systematize his thinking about art. He made up whole strings of teaching theory about color and form, and about...