World Heritage Sites - Bauhaus #02 The Masters' Houses

The inheritance of Bauhaus includes, of course, the school building, but also the remaining teachers' houses. The teachers called themselves master instead of professor. Renowned inhabitants included Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Georg Muche, Laszlo Moholy, Johannes Itten and Oskar Schlemmer.
The master's houses were semi-detached. Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky were once roof mates and expressed their creativity to their heart's desire. The architectural firm of Gropius designed the houses, so Gropius was on his own a two-earner household. After a period of some agony under the East German regime, the houses have now been completely restored and opened to the public.
The houses were delivered in 1926 when the first inhabitants hauled their belongings inside. Many of the things adorning the interior were designed by the Bauhaus and manufactured in their own workshops. Three of the four houses survived the Second World War; though the detached house of Gropius himself did not make it.

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