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Bauhaus

Staatliches Bauhaus

art material performance material culture movement or scene core Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • Walter Gropius, founder
  • Bauhaus school, institution and movement

Canon Rationale

A core design and modernist art-education movement, included for workshop pedagogy, architecture, typography, furniture, industrial design, and twentieth-century design reception.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 74.

Evidence

  • handbook: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Bauhaus'.
  • field survey: Smarthistory, 'The Bauhaus, an introduction'.

Audit Flags

epistemic status required

Sensitivity Flags

market canon bias

Completion unit: study the school/design movement through a short curated source unit; individual Bauhaus works can become separate records.

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