The Nazis drove Bauhaus out of town. Now the far right is waging another war against the movement

The AfD has launched a ‘think German’ campaign that promises promising a ‘new, patriotic cultural policy’ and an end to funding for ‘anti-German art and culture’. Photograph: Hannibal Hanschke/EPA

The city of Dessau, where the Bauhaus design school flourished a century ago, catapulted Germany into the modern era and revolutionised global design.

It is also where the Nazis drove the avant garde movement out of town and attempted to crush its utopian principles. A hundred years later, another high-stakes culture war over its legacy is looming.