Archive
The archive with the depot include the legacies and collections of 168 Bauhaus teachers and students, preserving sources of mainly private or institutional origin and providing a wealth of information on the Bauhaus lines of development and the stages of its history.
They include some 25,000 originals, thematic documents, eyewitness reports, findings from building research and the renovation of Bauhaus buildings and other examples of modern architecture.
The extensive historical collections include the legacies of Franz Ehrlich, Carl Fieger, Reinhold Rossig, Friedrich and Alma Else Engemann, and Konrad Püschel, partial legacies of Hannes Meyer and Lena Meyer-Bergner, a bundle of papers on Marianne Brandt and the group of works from the Bröhan Collection.
The archive can be searched via a database and printed catalogs.
The collection of photographic documents and videos includes material on the Foundation´s projects, the history of the Bauhaus with its workshops, the curriculum, architecture, life at the Bauhaus, the history of the institution and its institutional development.
