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Aleksandr Vesnin with Liubov Popova's brother

 

he various departments of the school responded differently to the new directions in art. Some were staunchly opposed and rigorously defensive. In others, the new won out, to greater or lesser degrees. 

 

In the architecture department the Vesnin brothers’ and Ginzburg’s Constructivism came to rival the influence of Ladovsky’s rationalism. The Constructivists worked hard to legitimize their position within the department, gradually winning adherents.

Model of Worker’s Club, designed and build by Aleksandr Rodchenko and his students, at the exposition of applied and decorative arts in Paris, 1925

or six years the Bauhaus shared a building with the more traditionalist Weimar Academy of Art in a delicate balancing act. But balance could not be sustained. The Academy eventually warred with Gropius. He fought back unsuccessfully, and was forced to move the school. The sad tale played out against a background of bohemian students and staid burghers.