WALTER GROPIUS Walter Gropius’s career advanced in the postwar period.
In 1919, Gropius was involved in the Glass Chain utopian
Henry van de Velde, the master of the Grand-Ducal
expressionist correspondence under the pseudonym
Saxon School of Arts and Crafts in Weimar, was asked
“Mass.” Usually more notable for his functionalist
to step down in 1915 due to his Belgian nationality. His
approach, the “Monument to the March Dead,” designed
recommendation for Gropius to succeed him and take
in 1919 and executed in 1920, indicates that expressionism
over eventually led to Gropius’s appointment as master
was an influence on him at that time.
of the school in 1919. It was this academy which Gropius
In 1923, Gropius designed his famous door handles, now
transformed into the world famous Bauhaus, attracting
considered an icon of 20th-century design and often listed
a faculty that included Paul Klee, Johannes Itten, Josef
as one of the most influential designs to emerge from
Albers, Herbert Bayer, László Moholy-Nagy, Otto Bartning
Bauhaus. He also designed large-scale housing projects in
and Wassily Kandinsky. One example was the armchair
Berlin, Karlsruhe and Dessau in 1926-32 that were major
F 51, designed for the Bauhaus’s directors room in 1920 -
contributions to the New Objectivity movement, including a
nowadays a re-edition in the market, manufactured by the
contribution to the Siemensstadt project in Berlin.
BAUHAUS INVOLVEMENT
BIRTH DATE
FOUNDER
ABOUT
OF THE BAUHAUS SCHOOL IN 19 19
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PARENTS WALTER ADOLPH GROPIUS MANON SCHARNWEBER
T WO INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT GROPIUS
LEADER OF
18 MAY 1883
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GROPIUS WAS NOT GOOD AT DR AWING. IN SCHOOL, HE HIRED AN A SSISTANT TO DO HIS W ORK FOR HIM. GROPIUS BUILT HIS OWN HOUSE WHEN HE MOVED TO LINCOLN, MA SSACHUSE T TS
DE STIJL UNIVERSAL L ANGUAGE THROUGH GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION
BIRTH PLACE
BERLIN GERMANY
NOTABLE BUILDINGS
THE CAPITAL AND SECOND MOST POPULOUS CIT Y WITH 4.4 MILLION RESIDENTS
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SEVEN OUTSTANDING CONSTRUCTIONS
German company TECTA/Lauenfoerde.
FAGUS FACTORY WERKBUND E XHIBITION BAUHAUS GROPIUS HOUSE UNIV. OF BAGHDAD JFK FEDER AL BUILDING PAN AM BUILDING
AREA OF CONCENTRATION
AGE OF DEATH
86 CAMBRIDGE, MASS. U.S.A
DIED ON JULY 5, 1969 HE IS REMEMBERED NOT ONLY BY HIS ARCHITECTURE BUT ALSO BY THE DISTRICT OF GROPIUSSTADT IN BERLIN, GERMANY
ARCHITECTURE