Town in eastern
Germany, in the state of
Saxony-Anhalt, near
Berlin, forming a triangle with
Leipzig and
Halle. First mention 1213, population today ~80'000.
Dessau is known mostly as the location of the
Bauhaus after it has been driven out of
Weimar by the early
Nazis (1926). In 1932, they forced it to move out of Dessau, too, igniting the
New Bauhaus in
Chicago.