Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius was born in 1883 and lived till 1969.  He was a German architect and was the founder of the Bauhaus school.  After completing his studies in 1907, worked for Peter Behrens who had a practice where the AEG Tubine hall was built.  In 1910 he started his own practice in Berlin and designed the Fagus works in Alfeld.

Fagus in Alfeld
Walter Gropius

Together with Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, Gropius is considered to be a leading pioneer in Modern architecture.  In 1910 he became a member of the Deutscher Werkbund  where both him and Henry Van De Velde tried to promote individual creativeness and not standardization.  Gropius hired Johannes Itten, Gerhard Marcks, Lyonel Feininger, Georg Muche, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky, Josef Albers, and László Moholy-Nagy.

The 'Bauhaus'

The 'Bauhaus' consisted of training and practicing different workshops.  Because of politics, the Bauhaus had to move and eventually shut down.  He then founded a joint architecture practice with Marcel Breuer.  Together, Breuer and Gropius built the Pennsylvania Pavilion for the 1929 World Far in New York City.
 


Walter Gropius Residence in Lincoln