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Walter Gropius
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Walter Gropius was a German architect who founded the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1919 and led it as director until 1928, before the school later closed under Nazi pressure in 1933 under its final director, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Gropius trained in the Berlin office of the architect Peter Behrens, whose staff in the years before the First World War also included Mies and, briefly, Le Corbusier, a shared apprenticeship art historians treat as one root of twentieth-century architectural Modernism. After emigrating from Germany, Gropius taught at Harvard University Graduate School of Design from 1937, where he trained a generation of American architects in Bauhaus-descended Modernist principles.
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NationalityGerman, later a naturalized citizen of the United States 1 Death PlaceBoston, Massachusetts, United States 1 Active From Year Active To Year TrainingStudied architecture in Munich and Berlin; worked in the Berlin office of Peter Behrens from 1908 to 1910 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Founded the school in 1919 and directed it until 1928, before Mies van der Rohe own later directorship.
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Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture.
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