The Bauhaus Building – history of use
Sept. 1925 Construction begins in Dessau.
21st March 1926 Topping-out ceremony.
4th Dec. 1926 Festive inauguration.
April 1928 Walter Gropius officially resigns as director; Hannes Meyer is appointed his successor.
Aug. 1930 Hannes Meyer is dismissed; Ludwig Mies van der Rohe becomes the new director.
21st Jan. 1932 The NSDAP's motion to demolish the building is rejected.
1st Oct. 1932 The Bauhaus in Dessau is shut down. Mies van der Rohe continues running it as a private institution in Berlin.
1933–45 The building is used by a state school for women, a school for training National Socialist district leaders, the Junkers factory, the Building Committee of Albert Speer and other institutions.
1936–37 Housing is built in the area around the Bauhaus. The architect Carl Fieger's plans for developing the area between the train station and the Bauhaus building are rejected.
7th March 1945 Part of the building burns down after a heavy air-raid on Dessau.
1946 Attempt to revive the Bauhaus in Dessau as a "Hochschule für Gestaltung" (School of design). Fails due to political opposition in 1947.
1946–48 The façade of the workshop wing is patched provisionally by building a brick wall with wooden-frame barrack windows.
1960–61 The temporary brick wall on the workshop wing is removed.
1963 Plans are developed for the reconstruction of the Bauhaus Building.
1964 Included into the List of Monuments for the District of Halle.
1965 Renovation of the façade of the workshop wing and the stairwell window; reconstruction of individual rooms.
1974 The Bauhaus Building is added to the GDR's List of Significant Monuments.
1976 Restoration is realised in strict observance of preservation measures for historic buildings and monuments.
4th Dec. 1976 Official re-inauguration of the Bauhaus Building on the 50th anniversary of the Bauhaus's opening in Dessau.
As of 1977 Several rooms are assigned to the Academic Cultural Centre (WKZ). A collection on the history of the Bauhaus is founded. Exhibitions are held and cultural events presented in the Bauhaus theatre.
1st April 1984 The Educational Centre Bauhaus Dessau takes up its activities.
4th Dec. 1986 Re-opening of the Bauhaus as the Centre for Design, an official state celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Bauhaus's opening in Dessau.
1989 During the 2nd Walter Gropius Seminar, the key idea for the "Industrial Garden Realm" is developed.
1994 The Bauhaus Dessau is turned into a public foundation with three departments: the Workshop, the Collection and the Academy. The Foundation's objectives: to preserve, transmit and study the legacy of the historic Bauhaus, as well as to contribute to solving the problems involved in designing today's environment.
5th Dec. 1996 The Bauhaus is included on the UNESCO World Culture and Nature Heritage List.
1999 BAUHAUS KOLLEG is founded.
