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Bauhaus: Cradle of the Modern

Neil MacGregor focuses on the Bauhaus school of art and design, founded in Weimar in 1919.
Our cities and houses today, our furniture and typography, are unthinkable without the functional elegance pioneered by the Bauhaus.

Producer Paul Kobrak.

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15 minutes

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  • Fri 24 Oct 2014 09:45
  • Fri 24 Oct 2014 19:45
  • Sat 25 Oct 2014 00:30

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