Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity

The Museum of Modern Art presents Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, a major retrospective presented in collaboration with a consortium of the three Bauhaus collections in Germany (Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, and Klassik Stiftung Weimar) from November 8, 2009, to January 25, 2010.

This exhibition is the first comprehensive treatment by MoMA of the Bauhaus since 1938.

That influential exhibition 70 years ago was organized by the school's founder and first director, Walter Gropius, and designed by former Bauhaus student and instructor, Herbert Bayer, the graphic designer.

For many years, its catalogue was the vehicle by which Americans learned about the Bauhaus.

MoMA's second major Bauhaus exhibition will offer a critical revision of the 1938 exhibition, reflecting a new generation of research and perspectives on that influential school, at the same time as presenting newly rediscovered Bauhaus objects and ones rarely seen outside Germany.

Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity will celebrate the 90th anniversary of the foundation of the Bauhaus in Weimar as well as the 80th anniversary of the founding of The Museum of Modern Art, which was inspired by founding director's Alfred Barr's visits to Dessau in the years before the Museum opened its doors.