The Closing of Staatliches Bauhaus



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Y/M/D Description Place
1931/10/21 Dessau City Council, controlled by the Nazi Party, removes funding from Bauhaus and closes the school. Mies retains ownership of intellectual properties and his full salary. Bauhaus, Dessau
1932/08/00 Bertrand Goldberg spends a semester at the Department of Architecture and Interior Design in Dessau before moving to Berlin. There he participated in its final phase. Bauhaus, Dessau
1932/10/00 Bauhaus school reopens in an abandoned telephone factory in Berlin-Steglitz, Mies contributes 27,000 Reichmarks of his own money.
1933/03/31 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe salary from Bauhaus is reduced to half. He will relieve half pay for 2 more years.
1933/04/11 Gestapo agents with bayonets close the Berlin Bauhaus and search the school for secret printing presses that could be used to publish anti-Nazi propaganda.
1933/07/21 After months of effort, Mies receives permission from the Chancery that he can reopen Bauhaus if they follow state orders and fire leftwing teachers, Ludwig Hilberseimer and the Wasili Kandinsky. Mies officially closes the school instead.

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