Facts about Vkhutemas vs. Bauhaus

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   Enrollment at Vkhutemas at its peak exceeded that of the Bauhaus, making it one of the largest avant-garde art schools of the early twentieth century.

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   The Bauhaus attracted international students and faculty including László Moholy-Nagy, while Vkhutemas drew primarily from Soviet Russian artistic traditions including Constructivism.

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   Unlike the Bauhaus, which closed under Nazi pressure in 1933, Vkhutemas was dissolved by Soviet authorities in 1930, reorganized into separate specialized institutes.

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   Vkhutemas was established in Moscow in 1920, one year before the Bauhaus moved from Weimar and a year after the Bauhaus itself was founded.

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   Both Vkhutemas and the Bauhaus were state-funded schools that blended fine arts with industrial design training, operating simultaneously in the 1920s.

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