ISBN 978-3-8365-6011-5 Edition: German ISBN 978-3-8365-6014-6 Edition: English Geniuses and Gesamtkunstwerk The most famous art school of modernism Between two world wars, in just 14 years, the Bauhaus changed modernism. Guided by utopian ideals, the school of art and design brought together art, craft and technology and applied this holistic concept to painting, sculpture, design, architecture, film, photography, textile design, pottery, theater and installations. The artists' collective with an external impact was also a close personal community. The school was founded by Walter Gropius (1883-1969) and its members included Josef and Anni Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Gunta Stölzl, Marianne Brandt and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. At all three successive locations of the school in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, there was a lively creative exchange between the students and teachers, who all cultivated different artistic styles and preferences, but were united in the