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Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German 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. He is a founder of Bauhaus in Weimar (1919). Gropius was also a leading architect of the International Style.
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One of the most important architects of the Modern movement, Gropius studied architecture in Munich and Berlin, then worked in the studio of Peter Behrens in Neubabelsberg. From 1910 to 1914, he worked as an architect in Berlin. After the war, he chaired the Staatliche Bauhaus at Weimar, then at Dessau. He left the Bauhaus in 1928, working in Berlin as an architect again. Gropius emigrated to England in 1934. In 1937, he went to the United States permanently, eventually becoming an citizen in 1944. He joined TAC (The Architects Collective) after the war, producing many structures and praticing until his death.
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Artist, Director, Architect, Professor, Teacher, Industrial Designer
Walter Gropius, Walter Adolf Gropius, Walter Adolf Georg Gropius, Georg Walter Adolf Gropius, Mass
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How Should We Live? Propositions for the Modern Interior
October 1, 2016–April 23, 2017
Shaping Modernity 1880–1980
March 28, 2012–September 8, 2013
Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980
December 23, 2009–July 25, 2010
Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity
November 8, 2009–January 25, 2010
Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
July 20–October 20, 2008
Walter Gropius has
28 exhibitions
Walter Gropius, Adolf Meyer Door Handles c. 1922
Walter Gropius Walter Gropius letterhead (Letter to Robert Motherwell) 1968
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