Q 01/05

Which motto is most closely tied to Mies van der Rohe, the Bauhaus's last director?

A) Form follows function

B) Less is more

C) Ornament is crime

D) Truth to materials

Answer · why

B) Less is more

Less is more. Mies made the phrase the creed of stripped-down modernism, and the postmodernist Robert Venturi later answered it with a jibe of his own...

Q 02/05

The word Bauhaus translates literally from German as what?

A) New house

B) Building house

C) Art house

D) Craft workshop

Answer · why

B) Building house

Building house. Gropius's 1919 manifesto called building the ultimate aim of all artistic activity and told architects, sculptors and painters to go b...

Q 03/05

Which painter of 'Twittering Machine' taught at the Bauhaus for a decade from 1921?

A) Joan Miró

B) Piet Mondrian

C) Paul Klee

D) Max Ernst

Answer · why

C) Paul Klee

Paul Klee. He left in 1931 for a professorship in Düsseldorf, but when the Nazis took power two years later they had him sacked at once and he went ho...

Q 04/05

Which American university hired Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius to teach architecture in 1937?

A) Yale

B) Princeton

C) Columbia

D) Harvard

Answer · why

D) Harvard

Harvard. Gropius had slipped out of Hitler's Germany in 1934 and crossed the Atlantic three years later, and the students he went on to teach there in...

Q 05/05

Why did the city of Dessau sack Bauhaus director Hannes Meyer in 1930?

A) A plagiarism scandal

B) A row over his salary

C) His refusal to teach

D) His left-wing politics

Answer · why

D) His left-wing politics

His left-wing politics. The city dismissed him for 'Communist machinations', and within months he had left for the Soviet Union, taking a group of for...