When Walter Gropius founded his famous school of design and art in 1919, the Bauhaus, he envisioned it as a place open to "any person of good repute, regardless of age or sex." A space where there would be "no difference between the beautiful sex and the stronger sex."
This idea challenged a society in which women were demanding access to spaces previously barred to them. While the artistic education women received at the time was confined to the intimacy of their homes, they were welcomed at Gropius's school, and their applications accepted. So much so that the number of women who enrolled exceeded that of men.
