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	title of this thread your message Although some of the early ideas of the Bauhaus were closely linked to people like the Austrian architect Adolf Loos ('ornament und verbrechen') and his ideas about the criminal character of ornament. The Bauhaus had no formal links to the Wiener Werkstatte and Walter Gropius never worked for them. Walter Gropius came to the forefront of German architecture through his collaboration with Peter Behrens and through the Deutsche Werbund and his relationship with Henri Van De Velde. By the way Loos had mostly unfriendly relationships with both the Wiener Werkstatte and the Deutsche Werkbund. But as others have pointed out, this kind of movements always shows more historical continuity than discontinuity. And so the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk , a notion first pioneered by Eusebius Trahndorff in an essay in 1827, that was the corner stone of the Wiener Werstatte also became an important part of Gropius Bauhaus manisfesto. Joseph Hoffman, the Austrian architect founder of the Weiner Werkstatte designed and build the ultimate 'Gesamtkunstwerk' (the systhesis of the arts) in Brussels for the Stocklet family. Now a Unesco monument site, the house is known for amoung other things the fabulous mosaics of Gustav Klimt. It has never been open to the public by the way. The house became a showcase both for the members of the Wiener Werkstatte and for the Wiener secession. But again even there no formal connection between The Wiener Werkstatte and the Bauhaus. Idiologically the two became with the years less and less compatile and eventually they opposed each other. associated web images (optional) associated web link (optional) your email your password create a forums account \| you forgot your password?