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Building Schedule and contemporary reaction:
Bauhaus building and Masters' Houses as a business.
The realisation of the Bauhaus and the Masters' Houses gave Gropius
a unique chance to convert his programmatic ideas and present them
to a wider public. Even on the occasion of the opening of the Bauhaus
on 4th December 1926, many visitors were guided through the Masters'
Houses. 60 representatives of the press alone were in Dessau for
the occasion and Gropius made a great effort himself, heavily supported
by his wife Ise, to intensively proselytise his intentions. The
specific aesthetics of the creation, the furnishings with products
from the Bauhaus workshops and also the requirements of the Bauhaus
for the design of living in a modern world were clearly demonstrated
in the houses lived in by Gropius and Moholy Nagy. They were almost
totally fitted out with Bauhaus creations whilst Feininger or Kandinsky,
for example, furnished their homes with their own furniture.
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