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with the characteristics of colors and forms. Johannes Itten enhanced the pedagogical and aesthetic ideas by establishing a structural approach to the study and use of color based primarily on the light-dark opposition. He followed in his teaching the ideas of Franz Ciek and Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel and the influential ideas of the Blaue Reiter group in Munich and the work of Austrian Expressionist Oskar Kokoschka. Hungarian designer Laslo Moholy-Nagy introduced the New Objectivity. He ensured that graphic design would be accepted in the Bauhaus curriculum. German painter, sculptor, and designer Oskar Schlemmer, Swiss painter Paul Klee and Painter Wassily Kandinsky were called to join them. 1922 Dutch painter Theo van Doesburg moved to Weimar to promote De Stijl ("The Style"), and Russian Constructivist artist and architect El Lissitzky came to lecture at the school.

1924 The Council of Masters at Bauhaus and Architect Gropius announced the closure of the Bauhaus in Weimar. The Social Democrats had lost control of the state parliament of the German state of Thuringia to the Nationalists and the Ministry of Education cut the school's funding for the Bauhaus in Weimar in half. 1925 the school moved to Dessau into its newly completed building. There the fusion of technical, social, and aesthetic requirements the school had aimed at where represented building forms and first time a department of Architecture was introduced.

Together with this the change of location remarkable changes in the direction of the school took place. Dutch architect Mart Stam run the newly founded architectural program and was succeeded by his friend Hannes Meyer who secured two building commissions for the Bauhaus. As a radical functionalist, Hannes Meyer took a more scientific approach to teaching. He criticized the program of the Bauhaus as being too formalist, and demanded the exclusion of aesthetic criteria. Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer and other long-time instructors left Bauhaus. Hannes Meyer had allowed the formation of communist student organizations. Soon Bauhaus was characterized as a front for communists and social liberals. Long before Nazi Party came to power in 1933 Bauhaus was labeled as "None German." Hannes Meyer and a number of his students emigrated from Germany to the Soviet Union in 1930. 1930 Mies van der Rohe became the new director of Bauhaus and held this position until he was expelled from Germany in 1933. In September 1932 the Bauhaus was forced to move

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