This book is focused on the objects and materials in the collection of the Bauhaus Dessau campus from all the phases of the renowned institution, including student works by Marianne Brandt, Josef Albers and Marcel Breuer, as well as works by Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Gunta Stölzl.
The vast breadth of creation in the short-lived school's history is represented in works by Anni Albers, Alfred Arndt, Herbert Bayer, Max Bill, Franz Ehrlich, Friedrich Engemann, Lyonel Feininger, Carl Fieger, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, Johannes Itten, Peter Keler, Benita Koch-Otte, Otto Lindig, Gerhard Marcks, Hannes Meyer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Lucia Moholy, László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Peterhans, Grete Reichardt, Hajo Rose, Reinhold Rossig, Hinnerk Scheper, Oskar Schlemmer, Joost Schmidt and Wilhelm Wagenfeld.