<span>The Bauhaus was a German school of art and design that operated in the early twentieth century. The students at the school were immersed in the idea that “form follows function.”</span>
There were many reasons why Germans left their homeland to make the treacherous journey across the Atlantic to America. Although much has been said about religious persecution, dissenters compromised a minority of German immigrants to Pennsylvania. Most were affiliated with Lutheran and Reformed churches, conservative religious groups.