Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius
Portrait by Louis Held, c. 1919
Born
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius

(1883-05-18)18 May 1883
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Died5 July 1969(1969-07-05) (aged 86)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
OccupationArchitect
Spouses
(m. 1915; div. 1920)
Ise Gropius
(m. 1923)
Children2, including Manon
Awards
Practice
Buildings
Signature

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] Gropius was also a leading architect of the International Style.[3] Gropius emigrated from Germany to England in 1934 and from England to the United States in 1937, where he spent the rest of his life.

  1. ^ Bauhaus Archived 28 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine, The Tate Collection, retrieved 18 May 2008
  2. ^ Caves, R. W. (2004). Encyclopedia of the City. Routledge. p. 319.
  3. ^ "International Style | architecture". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 September 2018.