"Perhaps more than any site outside of Europe, the history of Bauhaus is linked intimately with the history of Harvard." So state the authors of the Harvard Art Museum's extensive online collection dedicated to Bauhaus, the art school that led German art, architecture, and design from the dawn of the Weimar Republic in 1919 until the republic's demise in 1933. In 1930, a group of undergraduate students at Harvard organized an exhibit of Bauhaus works at Harvard, the first Bauhaus exhibit in the United State. Today, the Harvard Art Museum is home to over 30,000 archival resources, including photographs, paintings, textiles, and class notes. Readers looking to learn more about the history of Bauhaus may want to start by checking out the website's Chronology section, a multi-media annotated timeline of Bauhaus. Visitors can browse through the museum's digitized items in the Holdings section, where the collections organized into twelve categories.
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