About this sound Staatliches Bauhaus , commonly known simply as Bauhaus, was an art school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicised and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933. At that time the German term About this sound Bauhaus —literally "house of construction"—was understood as meaning "School of Building".The Bauhaus was first founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.