UNESCO World Heritage Bauhaus Weimar

Main Building

The building was erected in 1911 according to plans by Henry van de Velde as a studio building for the »Großherzoglich Sächsische Hochschule für Bildende Kunst in Weimar«, renovated in 1999 and is considered one of the most important art school buildings of the turn of the century. Walter Gropius founded the »Staatliche Bauhaus Weimar« here in 1919.

Van-de-Velde-Bau

The building of the former "Großherzoglich Sächsische Kunstgewerbeschule Weimar" was built in 1905 and 1906 by Henry van den Velde as an angular building and fundamentally reconstructed in 2009. Today it is the place of the Faculty of Art and Design.

Haus Am Horn

The Haus Am Horn is the only architecture realised by the Bauhaus in Weimar. It was built in 1923 as an model house for the Bauhaus exhibition and today belongs to the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Here, the masters and students presented for the first time how they envisioned contemporary building and living.

The State Bauhaus in Weimar represents an important chapter in the more than 150-year history of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and an essential part of humanitys cultural heritage. In 1996, the »Bauhaus Sites in Weimar and Dessau« were officially added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage. In 2017, the ensemble was extended to »Bauhaus Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau«.

In its official statement, the UNESCO justified its selection, stating »the Bauhaus, with its sites in Weimar (Thuringia) and Dessau (Saxony-Anhalt), represents the so-called Bauhaus school of architecture which, between 1919 and 1933, applied revolutionary ideas to building design and town planning. The buildings of the Bauhaus professors, from Walter Gropius to Hannes Meyer, Lazlo Moholy-Nagy to Wassily Kandinsky, founded the Bauhaus style, which made a decisive mark on the architecture of the 20th century.«

Information for guests

The Bauhaus.Atelier | Info Shop Café is the central contact point for guests of the university. In the former Brendel Studio next to the Main Building, student employees offer information, a café invites you to linger and numerous souvenirs and products from the university can be discovered in the shop.
On the following sites you will find important information in advance, the opening hours of the buildings and further links to plan your visit to us.

Bauhaus Anniversary Year

100 years of Bauhaus: For the Bauhaus University Weimar, this is an encouragement to learn and work together, a call to seek and provide answers to contemporary questions in research and art, teaching and study, an impetus to constantly start anew, to set out into the unknown - as at the Bauhaus in 1919. Here you will find a review of the Bauhaus anniversary program, exhibitions, conferences, lecture series, concerts, festivals and much more.

Partner and Alumni

You feel connected to the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, maybe you even studied here yourself? Do you want to work with us, get involved and contribute yourself, or just refresh contact with your former fellow students? Then get in touch and support us, for example through our Career Service, the »Freundeskreis der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar« or the Alumni Office. We look forward to talking to you.