Bauhaus Dessau 100
100 years ago, political pressure forced the Bauhaus school to relocate from Weimar to Dessau. Dessau became a place where the Bauhaus could flourish and put its vision of a better life for all into practice.
From September 2025 onwards, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation will celebrate this anniversary with a year-long festival programme entitled ‘An die Substanz’ (To the Core). The focus will be on the material, economic and technological foundations of the Bauhaus, from the extraction of raw materials to production processes, trade routes and the social and ecological consequences.
To mark the anniversary, we have developed a corporate design that restores colour and diversity of form to the Bauhaus Dessau identity. The design aims to breathe life into both the historical dimension of the Bauhaus and the discourse on contemporary design requirements.
