Connect with the Bauhaus University Weimar where creative study, design research and experimental thinking continue to shape the designers of tomorrow.
Experience Weimar’s Bauhaus heritage in studios, houses and museums where early visions of art and craft evolved into a new approach to modern living.
Discover Dessau’s modernist landmarks and explore spaces that shaped Bauhaus ideas, from iconic facades to interiors that redefined form and movement.
Discover Kandinsky’s legacy through museum spaces, original works and curated exhibitions across Weimar, Dessau and Berlin. Explore where his ideas were taught, shaped and transformed — and connect this heritage directly with the Bauhaus Experience Journey.
Bauhaus Experience frames Wassily Kandinsky’s teaching in Dessau within the wider Bauhaus ensemble: the Bauhaus Building, the Masters’ Houses and key workshop spaces. Tours highlight how color, form and composition moved from Kandinsky’s studio into architecture, interiors and everyday objects.
Your digital information pack suggests what to look for: color accents in studios, geometric rhythms in façades and the relationship between paintings, textiles and space. With this Kandinsky lens, Bauhaus Dessau becomes a walkable composition rather than just a set of famous buildings.
Follow Kandinsky's Bauhaus legacy through Weimar, Dessau and Berlin. Explore key sites where his ideas on colour, form and perception shaped modern art.
Bauhaus Experience · Editorial perspective
For Wassily Kandinsky, the Bauhaus was not only a school for form and function. It was a living laboratory where color, geometry and inner experience were tested in real space. The Bauhaus Experience Journey links this vision to today’s visitors in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin.
When Kandinsky joined the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1922 and later moved with the school to Dessau, he shifted the starting point of design. Instead of beginning with style, he began with perception. Students studied how points, lines and planes behave long before they designed a chair, a façade or a pattern.
Workshops became analytical studios. A single diagonal line could express movement, a vertical grid could create calm. Geometry was treated as a language that could be read and composed, not as decoration added at the end of a project.
Kandinsky’s book Concerning the Spiritual in Art predates the Bauhaus, but at Weimar and Dessau his theory turned into daily practice. He spoke of an inner necessity that should guide every artistic decision. At the Bauhaus this idea connected painters, weavers and architects.
“Color is a power which directly influences the soul.” · Wassily Kandinsky
This way of thinking changed everyday design. A woven border, a tiled floor or the window rhythm of the Bauhaus Building in Dessau can be read like a painting once you know his visual language.
What Kandinsky tested on canvas entered the teaching rooms and then the city itself. In Dessau you can trace this translation: analytic drawings in course material, colored planes in the Bauhaus Building, carefully tuned contrasts in the Masters’ Houses and the urban rhythm around them.
Instead of splitting fine art and design, Kandinsky helped to weave them together. A carpet pattern, a staircase wall or a studio window can form one visual sentence. This is why his name appears whenever designers talk about visual identity, wayfinding or immersive architecture.
The videos below extend the Bauhaus Experience Journey with sound and motion. They offer an introduction before you travel or a deeper layer after your visit to Dessau.
Whether you meet Kandinsky in a museum, in a book or on a guided Bauhaus Experience tour in Dessau, the key questions stay the same. How do colors interact in a room. Where does tension rise. Where does a composition finally rest. With this way of looking, carpets, posters, buildings and even digital interfaces start to reveal an underlying score.
For Bauhaus Experience, this is the soul of Bauhaus design. It is not a single object or painting, but a way of seeing the world that began in the Bauhaus studios of Weimar and Dessau and continues in today’s design practice. Kandinsky’s legacy lives wherever form and color are used with clarity, care and inner necessity.
Bauhaus Experience · Kandinsky Journey
From seminar rooms in Weimar to the glass façades of Dessau, the Journey follows Kandinsky’s ideas where they were taught and built. Choose how deep you want to go into color, form and modernism.
One concentrated Dessau day: Bauhaus Building, Masters’ Houses and interiors interpreted through Kandinsky’s language of color and geometry.
Weimar, Dessau and Berlin in one arc: early teaching, Dessau experiments and modern echoes in collections.
Workshops on form, color and composition plus in-depth talks with practitioners working with Bauhaus heritage today.
Journeys lead to the origins of modern design, part of the UNESCO World Heritage. Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin are places where architecture, art, and craft came together in a new vision of form. Their buildings, ideas, and ideals continue to influence how we understand space, structure, and function. They remain living symbols of a movement that reshaped the modern world.
Kandinsky’s work shaped new ways of seeing. With Bauhaus Movement, you can find original pieces and curated objects that honor his legacy and connect directly to the Bauhaus Experience.
