A Progressive Bauhaus Legacy: The Development of an East German Bauhaus Collection: Edition Bauhaus 54

When the Bauhaus departed Dessau in 1932, there was no Bauhaus collection left in its wake. Apart from the files in the city archive, some works in the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie and artworks in private hands, there were no other extant documents and objects in Dessau. Today, there are more than 50,000 objects and documents in the collection of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation—the product of an extraordinary Eas...