First published in December 1926 in Dessau, Bauhaus was the school's own journal, launched alongside the opening of Walter Gropius's new Bauhaus building and financed by the Circle of Friends of the Bauhaus.
Gropius co-edited the journal with László Moholy-Nagy, head of the metal workshop, for its first five issues through 1928. When Hannes Meyer succeeded Gropius as director that year, editorship passed to the critic Ernst Kállai, who marked the transition with a leading article titled "The Bauhaus Lives!"
Moholy-Nagy designed the journal's first year; Herbert Bayer then took over design for three issues before Joost Schmidt assumed the role from the third year onward, modifying Bayer's original logo. The journal's influence reached beyond Germany — it had a documented effect on Danish art magazines including Kritisk Revy and Linien, both contemporaries also held in this database. Bauhaus itself existed across three directors (Gropius, Meyer, and Mies van der Rohe) and three cities (Weimar, Dessau, Berlin) before the school's closure under Nazi pressure in 1933; the magazine's own run ended in 1931.
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Founder and first director of the Bauhaus; co-edited the school's journal through its first five issues.
Head of the metal workshop; co-edited and designed the journal's first year alongside Gropius.
Critic who took over editorship when Hannes Meyer succeeded Gropius as director, marking the transition with the article "The Bauhaus Lives!"
Designed the journal for three issues following Moholy-Nagy, originating its distinctive logo.
Took over design from the journal's third year onward, modifying Bayer's original logo.
Scans of the 13 issues held in this archive were digitised, paginated, OCR-processed, and assembled into PDF booklets by the Architectural Periodicals Database team.
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