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Jan 23, 2024 · Walter Gropius was a seminal figure in modernist architecture and the founder of the influential Bauhaus School of Art and Design. Born in 1883 in Berlin into a family with architectural ties, Gropius studied architecture in Munich and Berlin. He gained early professional experience under Peter Behrens, an industrial design pioneer.
Nov 2, 2018 · Walter Gropius: the ideas man who founded the Bauhaus school. Jon Astbury | 2 November 2018 Leave a comment. German architect Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919. As we continue our...
Apr 22, 2019 · Photograph by Jason Fulford for The New Yorker. The future-facing idiom of the Bauhaus, the German design school founded, in 1919, by Walter Gropius, is now antique, but its distinct vision of...
Mar 1, 2019 · Fri 1 Mar 2019 09.00 EST. A rrogant and charmless, obsessed with his own image, even phoney – this is how Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, the most influential of all art schools, is...
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture.
1. He was called the 'Silver Prince' No wonder that some people thought he was a prince: Walter Gropius was elegant and sophisticated, always smartly dressed and well-groomed – and he cut a...
6 days ago · Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883-5 July 1969) was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus school. Gropius is widely considered a modernist architectural pioneer and a key International Style architect. He studied at Munich and Berlin before beginning work for Peter Behrens in 1907.
