Q 01/05

Who founded the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1919?

A) Hannes Meyer

B) Peter Behrens

C) Walter Gropius

D) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Answer · why

C) Walter Gropius

His neologism referenced both building and the Bauhütte, the medieval stonemasons' guild.

Q 02/05

The word Bauhaus translates literally from German as what?

A) New house

B) Building house

C) Art house

D) Workshop

Answer · why

B) Building house

The school's manifesto declared that the aim of all creative activity was the building, though it offered no architecture classes until 1927.

Q 03/05

The Bauhaus operated in three German cities. In what order?

A) Berlin, Weimar, Dessau

B) Dessau, Weimar, Berlin

C) Weimar, Dessau, Berlin

D) Weimar, Berlin, Dessau

Answer · why

C) Weimar, Dessau, Berlin

Weimar from 1919 to 1925, Dessau to 1932, and ten months in a derelict Berlin factory before the end.

Q 04/05

Who was the third and final director of the Bauhaus, from 1930 to 1933?

A) Hannes Meyer

B) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

C) László Moholy-Nagy

D) Marcel Breuer

Answer · why

B) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

He interviewed every student on arrival, dismissed those he judged uncommitted and stopped the school making goods for sale.

Q 05/05

Why was second director Hannes Meyer dismissed by the mayor of Dessau in 1930?

A) Alleged misuse of school funds for communist causes

B) He refused to teach any architecture classes

C) He was found not to hold German citizenship

D) He was caught selling student designs abroad

Answer · why

A) Alleged misuse of school funds for communist causes

Meyer had actually blocked a student communist cell, but his politics still made the school a target; some loyal students left for the Soviet Union.