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Germany's Far Right Targets Bauhaus Centenary Funding
Original: Germany’s Far Right Is Attacking Bauhaus Again https:// jacobin.com/2026/10/bauhaus-na zis-afd-art-censorship It’s been
A century after Walter Gropius's Bauhaus building opened in Dessau, the Alternative für Deutschland is pushing to cut funding from the design school's centenary celebrations. The party's hostility echoes the Nazis' 1930s attacks on the Bauhaus, which forced its closure, reviving debate over the far right's relationship with modernist art and cultural institutions in Germany.
Why now: The Bauhaus centenary has put Germany's modernist heritage back in the spotlight, and the AfD's funding cuts echo historical far-right censorship of the movement.
BauhausAlternative für DeutschlandWalter GropiusDessauGermany
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- Germany’s Far Right Is Attacking Bauhaus Again https:// jacobin.com/2026/10/bauhaus-na zis-afd-art-censorship It’s been 100 years since the opening of Walter Gropius’s Bauhaus building in Dessau, but the Alternative für Deutschland wants to cut funding from centenary events.… · MillMessenger@journa.host · 3
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