The Bauhaus (German: 'house of building') was a school founded in Weimar, Germany by architect Walter Gropius in 1919, with the revolutionary premise that art, craft and industrial production should be taught and practised in unified workshops. Masters including Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Oskar Schlemmer worked alongside students to develop a new design language for the 20th century — functional, elegant, unornamented, adapted to industrial manufacture. The Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1925, to Berlin in 1932, and was closed by the Nazis in 1933. Its faculty dispersed across the world, spreading its ideas to America, Israel, and beyond. Its influence on architecture, graphic design, typography, furniture and product design is still pervasive — the chairs, posters and buildings we call 'modern' are largely Bauhaus in DNA.