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to Berlin after the Nazis were elected the biggest party in Dessau. Mies van der Rohe continued running Bauhaus as a private institution in Berlin. The Bauhaus dissolved itself under pressure from the Nazis in 1933.

Most of the prominent Bauhaus Masters and Students emigrated during following years to the USA, Great Britain, France , Switzerland, Netherlands and others and infused worldwide the Bauhaus ideas into architecture and arts. They carried the ideas and set them into practice again.

Johannes Itten's color wheel was incorporated into many systems including computer operating systems; Moholy-Nagy left for America and formed the New Bauhaus., later called the Institute of Design; Josef Alber's book "Interaction of Color" is a standard textbook in art classrooms; Herbert Bayer developed exhibition techniques and commercial art as a profession; Hannes Meyer was appointed director of the Institute of Urban Planning in Mexico in 1939; Mies van der Rohe settled in Chicago and became head of the architecture school at Chicago's Armour Institute of Technology. The philosophy of architect Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Erich Mendelssohn was implemented by the creations of their followers as Arieh Sharon, Zeev Rechter, Richard Kauffmann, Dov Karmi in Israel and Genia Averbuch in Palestine. Max Bill, a former Bauhaus student helped founding the Technical College for Design in Germany reflecting the principles of functionalism. Eliot Noys another Bauhaus student developed the IBM Corporate Identity with Paul Rand.

When observing design lines and trends today in all fields of interior design as well as architecture and urban planning one can trace ideas developed by Bauhaus.

Bauhaus buildings in Dessau were used for different purposes in the years that followed. It was partly destroyed in 1945 and reconstructed in 1976. Today, The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, a public institution, runs the house and offers an international and interdisciplinary post-graduate program for designers, urban planners, and architects. It is an extra-mural program for professionals whose work involves aspects of urban research and urban design. It undertakes research, lectures, and exhibitions on topics as "colors on the Bauhaus buildings"; "young peoples built the future"; "functionalism".

The international significance of the Bauhaus and its buildings in Weimar and Dessau was established by their inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1996.

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