The Bauhaus ceramics workshop was located about 30 km outside of Weimar in Dornburg on the river Saale. It was led by sculptor Gerhardt Marcks (1889-1981) and pottery master Max Krehan (1875-1925). Despite its short-lived existence (it was closed when the school moved to Dessau in 1925), the Bauhaus ceramics workshop exerted a strong influence on 20th-century ceramics, not least by exploring the possibilities of mass production through partnerships with ceramics and stoneware factories in Thuringia.