BAUHAUS SPIRIT LIVES ON

The new China Design Museum lifts the curtain on a global celebration of influential German art movement. Wang Kaihao reports in Hangzhou.

The Bauhaus movement was short-lived. The iconic German school of design, craft and fine arts was founded in Weimar in 1919, relocated to Dessau in 1925 and closed in Berlin in 1933. However, its spirit has lived on for generations.

With the centennial celebration of the movement approaching in 2019, a newly opened exhibition in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, pays homage to the rich legacies of the German school and has raised the curtain for a global celebration.