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   Door Knob by Walter Gropius This modernist door handle by Bauhaus founder and German architect Walter Gropius was first put into mass production in 1923, after being originally designed for...

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3. www.theartstory.org › artist › gropius-walterWalter Gropius Architecture, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory

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   Walter Gropius was born in Berlin to Walter Adolph Gropius, a government official and Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber, the daughter of the Prussian politician Georg Scharnweber. His parents were wealthy and well connected and Gropius spent his summers on the estates of landowning members of the family. Walter Gropius Senior had a keen interest in...

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   At the age of twenty, Gropius enrolled to study architecture at the Technical School in Munich and then the Konigliche Technische Hochschule in Berlin. His education was cut short when he inherited a substantial sum of money from a great aunt. Although his studies at the Hochschule were almost complete, he dropped out without taking the final exam,...

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   Following the war and the dissolution of his marriage, Gropius threw himself back into his architectural work. Despite previously staying out of politics, he now sympathized with the Left and became an advocate for the role that architecture and design could play in post-war social reform. In 1919 he became master of the Großherzoglich-Sächsische K...

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   The changing political landscape in Europe during the early 1930s began to affect Gropius's career. The Gestapo closed the Bauhaus in 1933 and Gropius's designs for government projects were continuously rejected due to his Left-leaning ideas. With Nazi condemnation of modern art and architecture as 'un-German' and degenerative on the increase, thos...

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   Although he is remembered for championing architectural mass production techniques and as a key figure in introducing modernist architecture to the United States, Gropius's most lasting achievements were as an educator. The Bauhaus challenged and redefined the way in which art, design, and architecture was taught, moving towards a more collaborativ...

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   • Nationality: German
   • Birth Date: May 18, 1883

   • Place Of Birth: Berlin, Germany
   • Death Date: July 5, 1969

4. www.metmuseum.org › toah › hdThe Bauhaus, 1919–1933 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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   Winton, Alexandra Griffith. “ Design, 1925–50 .” (October 2004) The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 in the city of Weimar by German architect Walter Gropius (1883–1969). Its core objective was a radical concept: to reimagine the material world to reflect the unity of all the arts.

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   Who was Walter Gropius?

   • Not only was Walter Gropius one of the pioneers of modern architecture, he was the founder of the Bauhaus, a revolutionary art school in Germany. The Bauhaus replaced traditional teaching methods with a flexible artistic community, focusing on a collaborative approach to learning and the creation of integrated design projects.

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   Did Walter Gropius make furniture?

   • Gropius produced far fewer furniture designs than his fellows on the Bauhaus faculty, but what he did make has a purity of form and spirit. As you will see from the works offered on 1stDibs, Walter Gropius never compromised his vision of design that encompassed beauty, creativity and the highest level of technical skill.

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   What was Gropius' vision for art and design?

   • Its core objective was a radical concept: to reimagine the material world to reflect the unity of all the arts. Gropius explained this vision for a union of art and design in the Proclamation of the Bauhaus (1919), which described a utopian craft guild combining architecture, sculpture, and painting into a single creative expression.

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   Where was Gropius House built?

   • The living room of the house Gropius designed for his family in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Built by the architect in 1938, it was furnished with items from the original Bauhaus workshops. Photograph by Jason Fulford for The New Yorker

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6. www.newyorker.com › the-man-who-built-the-bauhausThe Man Who Built the Bauhaus | The New Yorker

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   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...

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7. www.1stdibs.com › creators › walter-gropiusWalter Gropius Furniture - 3 For Sale at 1stDibs | walter ...

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9. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Walter_GropiusWalter Gropius - Wikipedia

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   Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, [1] 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. He was a founder of Bauhaus in Weimar (1919). [2] .

10. www.dezeen.com › 2018/11/02 › walter-gropius-bauhaus-Walter Gropius: the ideas man who founded the Bauhaus

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    Nov 2, 2018 · German architect Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919. We profile the man, who had a vision to make art accessible to the masses.