The Bauhaus style was inspired by 19th and early 20th-century creative tendencies including the Art Nouveau style and the various foreign versions like the Vienna Secession and Jugendstil, as well as the Arts and Crafts movement.All of these groups desired to blur the line between the applied and fine arts, as well as to reconnect imagination and fabrication.
The phenomenally skilled professors that Gropius drew to Weimar were in charge of designing and delivering a curriculum. During its short existence, the Bauhaus absorbed a variety of stylistic influences.
The Bauhaus’ impact would spread as far as its previous teachers in the decades after its demise, many of them were forced to depart Europe as the suffocating impacts of fascism took control.