Collection
The collection of the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung is the world’s largest on the Bauhaus. It includes artworks, objects, documents and media that bear witness to the work and life of Bauhaus teachers and students. These include works from a wide range of media, such as photographs, furniture, textiles, paintings, sculptures, graphic works, drawings, architectural plans, letters, books and audiovisual materials, as well as students’ works from the Bauhaus courses. In addition to our core holdings on the Bauhaus, we collect objects and documents related to the history of the artistic reform movement from the turn of the century, on other movements and art schools of the 1920s and on later institutions following the Bauhaus. For example, we preserve material on the New Frankfurt from the time of the Weimar Republic. Our collection also focuses on the New Bauhaus/Institute of Design in Chicago, founded in 1937, and the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm (Ulm School of Design), founded in the post-war period. Find out more about the individual collections here.
Highlights from the Collection
The Bauhaus Collection Online
Discover 500 works from the collection of the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung: furniture, ceramics, photographs, prints, textiles and much more. Large portions of Walter Gropius’s estate are also available for research purposes. The Walter Gropius Open Archive currently comprises 14,000 letters from the years 1910 to 1969, his photo archive (consisting of 3,500 photos of his buildings and projects and 2,500 private photos) and his newspaper archive on the Bauhaus from the period 1917 to 1925.
A large part of our documents can be researched via Kalliope. Our specialist library on the Bauhaus is accessible via the KOBV and OPAC databases.
We would like to thank the State of Berlin, the Research and Competence Center Digitization Berlin (digiS) and the European Fund for Regional Development (EFRE).
Access to the Bauhaus Collection Online and Open Archive Walter Gropius
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Loan requests for works from the collection of the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung
The Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung is currently being renovated in line with its listed status, and an extension is being added – in the future we will have more space for our programmes, our collection as well as our visitors and users. During this construction period, we are pleased to work with other institutions and support their exhibition projects to the best of our ability. Until the reopening planned for 2027, our means are limited to a very reduced loan programme. In addition to the usual conservational and legal conditions, we have to assess loans’ feasibility under the special conditions during the closure of our museum. Loan requests for more than ten works cannot be processed or can only be accepted in exceptional cases. We endeavour to resume our regular loan policy from 2028.