Walter Gropius
1883
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1969
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
movement: Bauhaus, International Style
country of citizenship: German Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, Germany
occupation: architect, pedagogue, urban planner, designer, teacher
award received: Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Royal Gold Medal, Goethe Prize, Ernst Reuter Medal, Albert Medal, honorary Royal Designer for Industry, Johann-Heinrich-Merck-Ehrung
student of: Karl Ernst Osthaus, Peter Behrens
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. He was a founder of Bauhaus in Weimar (1919). Gropius was also a leading architect of the International Style. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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