22/08/2026
This photograph of (from left to right) Wassily Kandinsky, Nina Kandinsky, Georg Muche, Paul Klee and Walter Gropius captures a pivotal moment in the history of the Bauhaus, the influential art and design school founded by Gropius in Weimar in 1919. This image embodies the collaborative and interdisciplinary ethos of the Bauhaus movement. Gropius, an architect, aimed to unify art, craft, and technology. Kandinsky, a pioneer of abstract art, and Klee, known for his unique style blending various art movements, both joined the Bauhaus faculty in the early 1920s. Their collaboration and teaching profoundly influenced modern art, architecture, and design.
© Walter Obschonka, 1926
