The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library is pleased to announce Bauhaus: A Centennial Celebration (1919-2019). Join art historian Victoria Martino for an intellectually stimulating and visually stunning five-week survey celebrating the centenary of the Bauhaus, the most legendary and influential school of art and design in history. On April 1, 1919, architect Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany. The school sought to erase the boundaries between fine and applied art and to reform art education. The lecture series traces the history of the Bauhaus through World War II and beyond.

April 2 Lecture: BIRTH PANGS AND BEGINNINGS.

On April 1, 1919, architect Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany. Modeled after the medieval organization of the artisan guild, and informed by the 19th century notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk (“synthesis of the arts”), the Bauhaus sought to erase the boundaries between fine and applied art and to reform art education.