<P> Germany 's defeat in World War I , the fall of the German monarchy and the abolition of censorship under the new , liberal Weimar Republic allowed an upsurge of radical experimentation in all the arts , which had been suppressed by the old regime . Many Germans of left - wing views were influenced by the cultural experimentation that followed the Russian Revolution , such as constructivism . Such influences can be overstated : Gropius did not share these radical views , and said that Bauhaus was entirely apolitical . Just as important was the influence of the 19th century English designer William Morris , who had argued that art should meet the needs of society and that there should be no distinction between form and function . Thus , the Bauhaus style , also known as the International Style , was marked by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of an object or a building and its design . </P>
<P> Germany 's defeat in World War I , the fall of the German monarchy and the abolition of censorship under the new , liberal Weimar Republic allowed an upsurge of radical experimentation in all the arts , which had been suppressed by the old regime . Many Germans of left - wing views were influenced by the cultural experimentation that followed the Russian Revolution , such as constructivism . Such influences can be overstated : Gropius did not share these radical views , and said that Bauhaus was entirely apolitical . Just as important was the influence of the 19th century English designer William Morris , who had argued that art should meet the needs of society and that there should be no distinction between form and function . Thus , the Bauhaus style , also known as the International Style , was marked by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of an object or a building and its design . </P>
the bauhaus symbolically represented germany 's recovery from which event
the bauhaus symbolically represented germany 's recovery from which event
World War I
World War I