The Masters’ Houses were a collection of seven houses, two semi detached and one detached, that were designed by Walter Gropius in 1925 to house the Bauhaus professors. They were just a few minutes’ walk away from the Bauhaus building in Dessau.

All houses were equipped with modern furniture. Gropius and Hungarian artist László Moholy-Nagy fitted their houses exclusively with furniture by Marcel Breuer. Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky played with arrangements of colour in the interiors which related to their own artistic work.

Only five houses remain and their restoration was finally completed in 2002. The Gropius and Moholy-Nagy houses were rebuilt as contemporary and abstracted versions of the original buildings. They are now open to the public and are used all year around for exhibitions.

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