The first object that visitors find when they arrive at Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity at New York’s Museum of Modern Art is not a tubular steel chair or a coffee and tea service or any of the other icons that have come to represent the storied German school. Instead, it is a photograph showing a group of students posing inside a stack of gridded shelves taken as a memento when founding director Walter Gropius departed. Photo ' Scott Rudd (top); Estate of Erich Consemüller (bottom) Installation view of Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity at the Museum of Modern Art