Six degrees

The Bauhaus art movement (works from which can be seen at the “German Design Standards” exhibition, at the HKDI Gallery, Tseung Kwan O) started in Weimar, Germany in 1919, following the end of the first world war and the abolition of censorship. The school aimed to bring all the visual arts together under one roof and spawned one of the most influential styles in modernist design and architecture, before closing in 1939 under pressure from the Nazi regime. Its last director, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, designed, among other things, Washington DC’s Memorial Library, later named in honour of Martin Luther King Jr …