Nazi storm troopers search the Bauhaus and detain students, and the Nazis gain an absolute majority in parliament. Under government pressure, and with the agreement of the masters, the Bauhaus is dissolved. Josef and Anni Albers immigrate to America to teach at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. They remain there almost 20 years, joined by former Bauhaus students including Xanti Schawinsky and Howard Dearstyne. Josef Albers teaches summer sessions at the Harvard Graduate School of Design before becoming chair of Yale’s design department in 1950.