ropius worked with De Stijl, the Dutch creative group that includes Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, and
J. J. P. Oud, and the Bauhaus became strongly involved with ideas of neoplasticism, De Stijl’s theory of the equality of opposites: verticals and horizontals, vacancies and masses, black and white, seen as representing the opposition of natural forces.
“Acrobatics”, scene II, produced by Oskar Schlemmer, 1927
Photo by Erich Consemüller © Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau

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Portrait of Lothar Schreyer, 1922
© Bauhaus Archiv Berlin
Piet Mondrian, Composition, 1929
© Mondrian/Holtzman Trust
Bauhaus Building Blocks designed by Alma Siedhoff-Buscher in 1923
Photo courtesy of Naef

