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Summary:
36 slides (ca. 1940-1968) of Walter and Ise Gropius, their home in Lincoln, Mass., and their art collection.
Citation:
Walter and Ise Gropius slides, 1940-1968. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
All duplicates.
Location of Originals:
Originals in Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Biography Note:
Architect, educator and founder of the Bauhaus school. Born in Berlin, Walter Gropius studied at the University of Charlottenburg-Berlin and Munich. Following European travel and apprenticeship with Peter Behrens in Berlin, he established his own practice in 1910. After military service in WWI, he became director of the School of Applied Arts and the Academy of Arts, united the two and named the new institute Bauhaus Dessau in 1925. Between 1934 and 1937, he had a private practice in London. From 1938 to 1952, Gropius was chairman of Harvard's Graduate School of Design and maintained a private practice with Marcel Breuer from 1938 to 1941. Gropius married Alma Schindler, Gustav Mahler's widow, in 1915. In 1923, he married Ise (or Ilse) Franck.
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
Donated 1982 by the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University. Originally ca. 340 slides lent. 36 of those slides were duplicates and subsequently given to AAA.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
