Who founded the Bauhaus School of Art?

• A. Walter Gropius
• B. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
• C. Le Corbusier
• D. Frank Lloyd Wright

Answer: (A)

This question tests who founded the Bauhaus, a turning point in 20th-century design that brought art, craft, and industrial production under one roof. Walter Gropius established the Bauhaus in 1919 in Weimar, setting up a new kind of school that deliberately dissolved the traditional boundaries between fine arts and crafts to train designers for mass production. His vision was to create practical, functional, and modern forms by combining aesthetics with engineering and manufacturing processes. The other figures named are important modernists, but they did not found the Bauhaus; Mies van der Rohe later led the school after Gropius, while Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright influenced modern architecture in other contexts.