Weimar & Bauhaus

Experience weimar: european capital of culture

Goethe and Schiller, Bach and Liszt, modernism and the Bauhaus. The small city is beloved for its enchanting mixture of a cultural center, its historical importance and beautiful old town.

Important cultural epochs and German as well as European history can be studied here. UNESCO has declared the houses of the poets Goethe and Schiller, the parks and gardens, the magnificent castles and the world-famous Duchess Anna Amalia Library a World Heritage Site. Bauhaus is also immortalized in this part of the collective architectural and design memory. Millions of visitors from all over the world come to the city every year to explore this unique place in the center of Germany.

Discover Bauhaus: Bauhaus was founded in Weimar

The founding of the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1919 was a result and an expression of the socio-political upheaval present in Germany after the fall of the »Kaiserreich« and the capitulation after World War I.

Walter Gropius was appointed as founding director for the "Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar", which should explore the potential of the continually advancing industrialisation in the optimisation of the production of everyday goods and architecture through innovative artistic work. 

The didactic concept included a foundational artistic education with Paul Klee, Lionel Feininger, László Moholy-Nagy, Wassily Kandinsky and Oskar Schlemmer. They shaped the character of art in the 20th century. They were also a fairly international group for that period in time and they revolutionised conventional academic precepts.