During lockdown I was reading all about the Bauhaus. It struck me that the school which opened its doors on 1st April 1919 (a mere 5 months after the Great War) lived a day-to-day existence not entirely out of keeping with how our lives are today. I dwelt on the school’s less well-known formative years between 1919 and 1923. It is the first time I have considered writing something that was not at least in part fiction and I am aware, should I go on to write this, that there is a duty to maintain the integrity of the characters from that period including Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger and Johannes Itten…

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