Bauhaus Dessau Foundation

The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation is a nonprofit foundation devoted to research and teaching in the field of experimental design. Based in the historical Bauhaus Building in Dessau-Roßlau, it was founded by the German Federal Government, the state of Saxony-Anhalt and the town Dessau in 1994. Its staff includes architects, town planners, sociologists, cultural scientists, artists and art historians.

After closing and expulsion of the historical Bauhaus in Dessau on 30 September 1932 a long time of 44 years had to pass, before the Bauhaus Building could be used again in its original sense. In 1976, 50 years after its construction, the GDR government had reconstructed the historical monument and founded a "Scientific and cultural Centre". Assembly of a Bauhaus collection of its own began and the Bauhaus stage was once again used for concerts and plays. In 1986 the GDR celebrated the reopening of the Bauhaus as a "Centre for Design", tied in the eastern Germany's department of building.

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