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Lecture series "The Thing" / Lecture 2 / 21.08.2013 Lecturer: Artem Dezhurko Bauhaus is the old Weimar Academy of Arts, renamed in 1919, when it was headed by a new director - modernist architect Walter Gropius. Many avant-garde artists from Germany united around Gropius; due to the traditionally strong cultural ties between Germany and Russia, they were later joined by Wassily Kandinsky and El Lissitzky. Bauhaus is a school of avant-garde design, similar to VKHUTEMAS in Moscow, but more successful. Some designers, graduates of Bauhaus, found jobs in their specialty. Some experimental objects created in the workshops of the school were taken into production by German factories. Thus, the foundations of a national school of design were laid, which were remembered and appealed to by German designers of the new, post-war era.