Berlin
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days agoWeimar by Katja Hoyer review the town that changed Germany
Weimar embodied Germany’s cultural prestige and democratic beginnings while also becoming a stage for early Nazi rituals and political experiments.
Gropius, who from 1919 to 1928 directed the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, designed the house in 1921-22 for lawyer Fritz Otte. The property is considered a dramatic evolution of Gropius's earlier seminal Haus Sommerfeld, which was also located in Berlin, but destroyed in World War II. The Bauhaus founder embraced a forward-looking approach with an unadorned, sharp-edged structure that rejected the heaviness of 19th-century historicism.