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Bauhaus also offers "DRIVE-IN arenas" for building materials and supplies, available at over 50 locations as of
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Bauhaus opened in Austria. This was followed by further expansion in 1988 whereby the first Scandinavian store officially opened in Denmark, and in 1993 the first Bauhaus in Eastern Europe opened in the Czech Republic. As of January 2015 Bauhaus operates in 19
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cultural movement. The Bauhaus Archive had attempted to challenge the trademark registered by the hardware store in 1960 through a lawsuit, but was unsuccessful in court in 1971.
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Established as an unlisted stock corporation, Bauhaus was primarily owned by German billionaire Heinz G. Baus until his passing in 2016. Baus' family relocated from Mannheim to
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