To instruct this new guild of creatives, Gropius assembled an impressive faculty of distinguished artists. These “masters,” as Bauhaus instructors were called, taught a wide range of workshops, including architecture, sculpture, metalworking, ceramics, stained glass, printmaking, stagecraft, advertising, photography, wall-painting, and weaving.
Gropius’s radical Bauhaus was a short-lived institution; the school was only open for 14 years, between 1919 and 1933, and migrated between three German locations before it was shut down by the Nazis. Still, its inventive design philosophy has enjoyed a long afterlife and far-reaching influence in the 100 years since its founding.