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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum  Search this

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum  Search this

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Author:

Vignelli, Massimo  Search this

Vignelli, Lella  Search this

Parsons School of Design  Search this

Subject:

Vignelli, Massimo  Search this

Vignelli, Lella  Search this

Physical description:

[112] p. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Date:

1981

Topic:

Design  Search this

Industrial design  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Call number:

NK839.V68 A4 1981

NK839.V68A4 1981

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_144549

Creator:

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969  Search this

Gropius, Ise, 1897-1983  Search this

Subject:

Aalto, Alvar  Search this

Albers, Josef  Search this

Bartók, Béla  Search this

Bayer, Herbert  Search this

Breuer, Marcel  Search this

Calder, Alexander  Search this

Cascieri, Arcangelo  Search this

Chermayeff, Serge  Search this

Feininger, Lyonel  Search this

Gabo, Naum  Search this

Huxley, Julian  Search this

Kandinsky, Wassily  Search this

Kepes, Gyorgy  Search this

Klee, Paul  Search this

Klemperer, Otto  Search this

Le Corbusier  Search this

Mahler, Alma  Search this

Marcks, Gerhard  Search this

Moholy-Nagy, László  Search this

Muche, Georg  Search this

Pei, I. M.  Search this

Petit, Claude  Search this

Pritchard, Jack  Search this

Rivera, Diego  Search this

Schmidt, Joost  Search this

Schwitters, Kurt  Search this

Sert, José Luis  Search this

Stravinsky, Igor  Search this

Tange, Kenzō  Search this

Werfel, Franz  Search this

Wright, Frank Lloyd  Search this

Gropius, Walter  Search this

Davis, Charles H. (Charles Harold)  Search this

Scharoun, Hans  Search this

Wachsmann, Konrad  Search this

Beckmann, Hannes  Search this

Chermayeff, Ivan  Search this

Klarmann, Adolf D.  Search this

Koch, Helmut  Search this

Miró, Joan  Search this

Architects Collaborative, Inc.  Search this

Bauhaus  Search this

Walter Gropius Foundation  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Walter and Ise Gropius papers, 1883-1981. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Germany  Search this

Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- United States  Search this

Industrial design  Search this

Theme:

Diaries  Search this

Photography  Search this

Architecture & Design  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)8295

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)210466

AAA_collcode_gropwalt

Theme:

Diaries

Photography

Architecture & Design

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

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edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_210466

Creator:

Tatti, Benedict, 1917-1993  Search this

Names:

American Medallic Sculpture Association  Search this

American Numismatic Association  Search this

Anthology Film Archives  Search this

Audubon Artists (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Galerie Claude Bernard  Search this

Mercer Arts Center (Organization: New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Roko Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Canfield, Jane  Search this

Goodrich, Lloyd, 1897-1987  Search this

Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988  Search this

Slobodkin, Louis, 1903-  Search this

Zorach, William, 1887-1966  Search this

Extent:

1.8 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Notes

Awards

Lists

Christmas cards

Photographs

Designs

Sketches

Date:

1936-2011

bulk 1945-1993

Summary:

The papers of New York sculptor, painter, educator, and video artist, Benedict Tatti (1917-1993) measure 1.8 linear feet and date from 1936-2011, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1945-1993. Papers consist of biographical material, correspondence, project files, subject files, exhibition files, writings, notes, and lists, printed materials, and photographs. Exhibition files and printed material, such as catalogues and checklists provide an overview of Tatti's activities as a sculptor and video artist. Also, photographs of artwork are a rich source of provenance-related information on Tatti's sculptures.

Scope and Contents note:

The papers of New York sculptor, painter, educator, and video artist, Benedict Tatti (1917-1993) measure 1.8 linear feet and date from 1936-2011, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1945-1993. Papers consist of biographical material, correspondence, project files, subject files, exhibition files, writings, notes, and lists, printed materials, and photographs. Exhibition files and printed material, such as catalogues and checklists provide an overview of Tatti's activities as a sculptor and video artist. Also, photographs of artwork are a rich source of provenance-related information on Tatti's sculptures.

Biographical materials include curriculum vitae, Who's Who in American Art, memberships, and awards. Correspondence is primarily from colleagues, dealers, collectors, and representatives of museums, galleries, and arts organizations. There are a few outgoing letters from Benedict Tatti, including a handmade holiday card. Among the notable correspondents are Jane Canfield, Lloyd Goodrich, Louis Slobodkin, and William Zorach. Also found is a small portion of Adele Tatti's correspondence relating to her late husband's artwork.

Project files contain Tatti's commissions for Eutectic-Castolin Institute, Staten Island Community College, Statue of Liberty Restoration, and the Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts; application proposals to Creative Artists Public Service program (CAPS); and the artist's invention of the rewind reel adapter. Subject files include Tatti's memberships and activities in professional associations, e.g., American Medallic Sculpture Association, American Numismatic Society, and Audubon Artists; Tatti's Artist-in-Residence proposals for the Television Lab, WNET 13; and his involvement in educational video presentations. Exhibition files consist of scattered materials on Tatti's shows at the Anthology Film Archives; Burr Galleries; Galerie Claude Bernard; The Kitchen, Mercer Arts Gallery; Northeast Harbor Gallery; and Roko Gallery.

Writings, notes, and lists include writings by Benedict Tatti; writings about Benedict Tatti, including a statement on the artist by Isamu Noguchi; and lists compiled by Adele Tatti relating to her late husband's work. Artwork contains Tatti's sketch of a sculpture for the Northeast Harbor Museum and sketches of medal designs. Printed material consists of announcements, brochures, invitations, exhibition catalogues and checklists, clippings, periodicals, newsletters, reproductions, other printed matter, and monographs. Photographs include black and white prints of portrait shots of Benedict Tatti, Tatti in his studio and with others, video equipment and Tatti's video art; also found are color photographs of Tatti's sculptures and design maquettes.

Arrangement note:

The collection is arranged as 9 series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1936-1993 (Box 1; 0.1 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1945-2008 (Box 1; 0.1 linear feet)

Series 3: Project Files, 1966-2005 (Box 1; 0.1 linear feet)

Series 4: Subject Files, circa 1950s-2008 (Box 1; 0.1 linear feet)

Series 5: Exhibition Files, 1945-1992 (Box 1; 0.1 linear feet)

Series 6: Writings, Notes, and Lists, circa 1940s-2009 (Box 1; 4 folders)

Series 7: Artwork, 1970-circa 1990s (Box 1; 3 folders)

Series 8: Printed Material, 1937-1976 (Boxes 1-2; 0.8 linear feet)

Series 9: Photographs (circa 1936-1970s), circa 1964-2010 (Box 3; 0.4 linear feet)

Biographical/Historical note:

Benedict Tatti (1917-1993) worked in New York as a sculptor, painter, educator, and video artist.

Born in New York in 1917, Tatti began his art education at Haaren High School. He continued his studies at the Roerich Museum with Louis Slobodkin, the Art Students League with William Zorach and Ossip Zadkine, and the Leonardo da Vinci School of Art under Attillio Piccirelli. Later in his career, he attended the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts. During World War II, Tatti served in the United States Army Air Force, where he spent three years assigned to variety of projects. In 1948, Benedict Tatti married Adele Rosenberg in New York City.

Throughout his career, Tatti continuously experimented with various media. From 1952-1963, Tatti executed sculptural models of architectural and consumer products for the industrial designers, Raymond Loewy Associates; later he became a color consultant for the firm. In the 1960s, influenced by the Abstract Expressionists, Tatti turned from carving directly in wood and stone to creating assemblage sculptures, using bronze metal and other industrial materials. During this period, Tatti spent summers on Monhegan Island in Maine, where he developed his water coloring techniques. In 1963, Tatti was hired to teach sculpture at the High School of Art and Design in New York, a position that he held for fifteen years.

In the 1970s, Tatti, with no previous background in video work developed technology for video imaging. He became an associate member of the Kitchen at the Mercer Arts Center exhibiting his video sculptures along with other early innovators of this new art form. In 1975, he invented a rewind reel adapter device. Despite health problems, Tatti continued to work and exhibit into the 1980s. He assisted his brother, Alexander Tatti and his nephew, Steven Tatti on the restoration of the Statue of Liberty on Ellis Island, which was completed in 1985.

Benedict Tatti received solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the United States and abroad, including the Burr Gallery, Claude Bernard Galleries, Metropolitan Museum of Art, under the Artists for Victory Program, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Northeast Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Roko Gallery. Also, Tatti's work was regularly featured in annual exhibitions of several arts organizations: American Society of Contemporary Artists, Annual Avant Garde Festival, Audubon Artists, Brooklyn Society of Artists, and Painters and Sculptors Society of New Jersey. His awards included the National Soldier Art Competition at the National Gallery of Art (1945); Artist-in-Residence, National Center of Experiments TV, San Francisco, California, (1969); and the Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS), (1972). Tatti's artwork is in the permanent collections of the American Numismatic Society, Art Students League, Dumbarton Oaks, Monhegan Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and the Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts.

Benedict Tatti died on July 30, 1993.

Provenance:

The Benedict Tatti papers were donated by Adele Tatti, widow of Benedict Tatti, in 2010.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment.

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Occupation:

Video artists -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

Educators -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Painters -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Genre/Form:

Notes

Awards

Lists

Christmas cards

Photographs

Designs

Sketches

Citation:

Benedict Tatti, 1936-2011, bulk 1945-1993. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.tattbene

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Archives of American Art

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https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9b58b3ec4-c37d-49b9-8159-5cff7c512cf1

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-tattbene

Creator:

Isaacs, Reginald R., 1911-  Search this

Names:

Bauhaus  Search this

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969  Search this

Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956  Search this

Extent:

22.54 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sketches

Scrapbooks

Exhibition catalogs

Writings

Photographs

Date:

circa 1842-1991

bulk 1928-1991

Summary:

The papers of Reginald R. Isaacs measure 22.54 linear feet and date from 1842 to 1991, with the bulk of the material from 1928 to 1991. The collection includes Isaacs's personal and professional papers, as well as extensive research material he collected and created for his two-volume biography, Walter Gropius: The Man and His Work.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of of architect, instructor, writer, and city planner Reginald R. Isaacs (1911-1986) measure 22.54 linear feet and date from 1842 to 1991 with the bulk of the material dating from 1883 to 1985. The collection includes Isaacs's personal and professional papers, as well as extensive research material he collected and created for his two volume two-volume biography of Bauhaus architect, Walter Gropius: Walter Gropius: The Man and His Work. The bulk of Walter Gropius' papers are housed at the Busch Reisinger Museum at Harvard University, and the Bauhaus Archiv in Germany.

Series 1 to 12 contain contain biographical, legal, and financial material; personal and professional correspondence; project and subject files; writings and publications; teaching files; works of art; scrapbooks; printed material; and photographs relating to Isaacs' personal and professional career.

Series 13 forms the bulk of the collection and pertains specifically to the writing and publication of Isaacs' biography of Gropius. It contains research material, correspondence (much of it with Gropius), drafts of the manuscript, publication correspondence, photographs and illustrations, and printed material. Some of the research material, including some of the photographs and illustrations that were used in the biography, appear to have been original documents of Walter Gropius, while large portions of the material are photocopies of the originals, many of them in German.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into fourteen series. Glass plate negatives are housed separately and closed to researchers.

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1935-1986, undated (Boxes 1, 22; 8 folders)

Series 2: Legal Material, 1976-1984, undated (Box 1; 3 folders)

Series 3: Financial Material, 1945-1969 (Box 1; 2 folders)

Series 4: Correspondence, circa 1891, 1936-1986 (Boxes 1-2; 1.5 linear feet)

Series 5: Project Files, 1948-1980, undated (Box 2, OV 23; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 6: Subject Files, 1961-circa 1982, undated (Box 3; 2 folders)

Series 7: Writings, 1940-1986, undated (Boxes 3-4, 22; 2.0 linear feet)

Series 8: Teaching Files, 1954-1973 (Boxes 4-5; 1.0 linear foot)

Series 9: Works of Art, 1965-1967, undated (Box 5, OV 23; 3 folders)

Series 10: Scrapbooks, 1929-1969 (Box 5; 2 folders)

Series 11: Printed Material, 1842-1844, 1913-1986, undated (Box 5; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 12: Photographs, 1959-1981, undated (Boxes 5, 22; 7 folders)

Series 13: Walter Gropius Biography, circa 1880s-1991, undated (Boxes 6-22, OV 23, MGP 1, MGP 2, MGP 4; 16.0 linear feet)

Series 14: Unprocessed Addition, 1974-1985 (Box 24; 1.0 linear foot)

Biographical Note:

Born in Canada in 1911, Reginald R. Isaacs began working in architectural offices at age 14, later coming under the influence of "Beaux-Arts diplomes" at the University of Minnesota and Harvard and subsequently under that of Walter Gropius at Harvard University. He later studied sociology and planning at the University of Chicago under Louis Wirth and Rexford Guy Tugwell.

Isaacs served on the staffs of city planning commissions in Minneapolis, Syracuse, and Chicago, and in the federal government in the National Youth Agency, Public Housing Authority, and Housing and Home Finance Agency. His architectural practice in Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and other cities included the design of housing, colleges, and hospitals. He was director of planning and development for Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, 1945-1953, where Walter Gropius, planner Walter Blucher, and sociologist Louis Wirth collaborated with him as consultants. He was a United Nations expert on regional planning in South America, and a planning consultant for the Ford Foundation, the U.S. State Department, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.

Recommended by Walter Gropius, Isaacs served as the Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning at Harvard University from 1953-1978. He was also Chairman of the Graduate School of Design's Departments of City and Regional Planning as well as Landscape Architecture. Throughout his career he lectured at universities throughout the United States and in almost every country of Central and South America and in the Caribbean.

In 1962 Isaacs and Gropius began their collaboration on Walter Gropius: The Man and his Work, until the death of Gropius in 1969. The first volume of the biography was published in German in 1983, with the second volume following in 1984. Isaacs died of a massive heart attack in 1986, never realizing his goal to see an English-language edition which was published posthumously in 1991 by the Estate of Reginald Isaacs.

Missing Title

1911 -- Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

1935 -- Received Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Minnesota

1939 -- Received Masters of Architecture degree from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design

1947-1950 -- Studied sociology and planning with Louis Wirth and Rexford Guy Tugwell at the University of Chicago

1945-1953 -- Director of planning at Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, Illinois

1951-1953 -- Guest lecturer at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design with Walter Gropius and also served a two-year term as a member of the Board of Overseers Committee to Visit the Graduate School of Design

1953-1978 -- Named the Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning

1953-1964 -- Chairman of the Department of City and Regional Planning

1953-1958 -- Chairman of the Department of Landscape Architecture

1962 -- Began collaboration with Walter Gropius on the biography Walter Gropius - The Man and his Work

1969 -- Walter Gropius dies

1983 -- Walter Gropius, Der Mensch und Sein Werk, Volume 1 published by Gebr. Mann Nerlag, Berlin

1984 -- Walter Gropius, Der Mensch und Sein Werk, Volume 2, published by Gebr. Mann Nerlag, Berlin

1986 -- Isaacs dies

1991 -- Walter Gropius: An Illustrated Biography of the Creator of the Bauhaus, published by the Estate of Reginald Isaacs. The Papers of Reginald R. Isaacs donated to the Archives of American Art by his son, Henry Isaacs.

Provenance:

The collection was donated to the Archives of American Art by Henry Isaacs, son of Reginald Isaacs, in January 1991. An additional 1.0 linear foot was donated by Merry White, daughter of Reginald Isaacs, in 1997.

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research. Use requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. research facility.

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Topic:

Architecture and society  Search this

Schools of architecture  Search this

Architectural writing  Search this

Architecture, Modern  Search this

Architects and community  Search this

Architects and housing developers  Search this

Architects in government  Search this

Architects  Search this

International style (Architecture)  Search this

Authors  Search this

Industrial designers  Search this

City planning  Search this

Architecture, Modern -- 20th century  Search this

City planners  Search this

Educators -- Massachusetts  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sketches

Scrapbooks

Exhibition catalogs

Writings

Photographs

Citation:

Reginald R. Isaacs papers, circa 1842-1991, bulk 1928-1991. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Glass plate negatives in this collection were digitized in 2019 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.

Identifier:

AAA.isaaregi

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Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw99abacd2a-fa5c-419a-85f4-ac33498ce6c1

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-isaaregi

Creator:

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969  Search this

Gropius, Ise  Search this

Names:

Architects Collaborative, Inc.  Search this

Bauhaus  Search this

Walter Gropius Foundation  Search this

Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976  Search this

Albers, Josef  Search this

Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945  Search this

Bayer, Herbert, 1900-1985  Search this

Beckmann, Hannes, 1909-1977  Search this

Breuer, Marcel, 1902-  Search this

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976  Search this

Cascieri, Arcangelo, 1902-1997  Search this

Chermayeff, Ivan  Search this

Chermayeff, Serge, 1900-  Search this

Davis, Charles H. (Charles Harold), 1856-1933  Search this

Feininger, Lyonel, 1871-1956  Search this

Gabo, Naum, 1890-1977  Search this

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969  Search this

Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975  Search this

Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944  Search this

Kepes, Gyorgy, 1906-2001  Search this

Klarmann, Adolf D., 1904-  Search this

Klee, Paul, 1879-1940  Search this

Klemperer, Otto, 1885-1973  Search this

Koch, Helmut  Search this

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965  Search this

Mahler, Alma, 1879-1964  Search this

Marcks, Gerhard  Search this

Miró, Joan, 1893-  Search this

Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946  Search this

Muche, Georg, 1895-  Search this

Pei, I. M., 1917-  Search this

Petit, Claude  Search this

Pritchard, Jack, 1899-  Search this

Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957  Search this

Scharoun, Hans, 1893-1972  Search this

Schmidt, Joost, 1893-1948  Search this

Schwitters, Kurt, 1887-1948  Search this

Sert, José Luis, 1902-  Search this

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971  Search this

Tange, Kenzō, 1913-  Search this

Wachsmann, Konrad, 1901-1980  Search this

Werfel, Franz, 1890-1945  Search this

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959  Search this

Extent:

0.4 Linear feet ((24 microfilm reels))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1883-1981

Scope and Contents:

Biographical material, correspondence with architects and artists (1903-1978), writings (1923-1969), a diary, an autograph book, subject files, printed material, photographs (1883-1979) and 5 photograph albums reflect the career of Walter Gropius, the activities of his wife Ise, and her recollections of the Bauhaus. Also included are 5 cassette tapes, untranscribed and unmicrofilmed.

REELS 2270-2283: Walter Gropius' correspondence concerns family matters (1903-1933), locating his sister in Berlin after World War II (1945-1946), and the Bauhaus Archiv (1957-1968). Ise Gropius' correspondents (1969-1978) include Alvar Aalto, Herbert Bayer, Hannes Beckmann, Arcangelo Cascieri, Ivan and Serge Chermayeff, Adolf Klarmann, Helmut Koch, Gerhard Marcks, Jack Pritchard, Hans Scharoun, and Konrad Wachsmann. Other correspondence concerns exhibitions about Gropius (1969-1976). Writings by Walter Gropius include lecture notes and short essays on architecture and design. A subject file (1945-1954) concerns visits to Japan. Printed material (1910-1978) includes galley proof sheets and clippings (1913-1957).

REELS 2284-2286: Photographs (1896-1937) show family members including Gropius' first wife Alma Schindler and their daughter Manon; Gropius' architectural projects including finished buildings, models, blueprints, and drawings (1906-1952); and an exhibition in London on Gropius.

REEL 2287: Biographical material (1883-1979) consists of Gropius' birth, marriage and death certificates, his military record (1914-1917), contracts, U.S. naturalization papers (1941-1944), financial documents (1945), Ise Gropius' will (1979), a list of works, a history of the Gropius family, real estate records, and membership cards. Excerpts from letters written by Marcel Breuer describe his European travels (1931-1937). A file on the Walter Gropius Foundation contains letters and notes (1969). An autograph book kept by Ise Gropius (1924-1981) contains illustrations by Herbert Bayer, Gyorgy and Juliet Kepes, Joan Miro, Kurt Schwitters, and Phyllis Terry, as well as autographs, notes and photographs. Writings by Ise Gropius include lecture notes and printed essays (1935-1943).

REEL 2287a: Twenty-six letters (1932-1952) from Herbert Bayer, written in German and English, to Gropius. Thirteen excerpts from Bayer's letters (1932-1949) are translated into English.

REELS 2330-2331: Photographs (1883-1979) show Walter Gropius, family members, and colleagues including Alvar Aalto, Bela Bartok, Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Alexander Calder, Arcangelo Cascieri, Naum Gabo, Julian Huxley, Gyorgy Kepes, Paul Klee, Le Corbusier, I. M. Pei, Diego Rivera, Jose Luis Sert, Kenzo Tange, Frank Lloyd Wright, and members of Gropius' firm, The Architects Collaborative. Other photographs show a skit by students of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Bauhaus (1979).

REEL 2393: English translations of correspondence between Ise and Walter Gropius (1931-1969) and Ise's 1928 letter to a journalist commenting on Walter Gropius' resignation from the Bauhaus. A handwritten German copy (with a typewritten English translation) of a section of Ise Gropius' unpublished memoir describes her first meeting with Gropius and their courtship and marriage (1923-1929). A German transcript was not filmed. A typewritten English translation of Ise Gropius' diary (1924-1928) describes activities at the Bauhaus and mentions Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Otto Klemperer, Alma Mahler, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Georg Muche, Kurt Schwitters, Igor Stravinsky, and Franz Werfel. A handwritten translation is filmed on reel 4130.

REEL 2764: One photograph album (1925-1930) contains photographs of Walter and Ise Gropius and colleagues including Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Lyonel Feininger, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Georg Muche, Claude Petit, and Joost Schmidt; construction of the Bauhaus (1925-1926); and sights in Germany and Italy. Four albums on the United States contain Gropius' photographs of New York City architecture, the Brooklyn Bridge, Chicago, California housing and industry, the Grand Canyon, and American Indians.

UNMICROFILMED: 5 cassette tapes, untranscribed, including a lecture delivered by Walter Gropius as part of "The Heritage of Man" lecture series, Cleveland, Ohio, February 13, 1952; an interview of Ise conducted by the Canadian Broadcasting Company, October 28, 1977; and 3 of a monologue delivered by Ise, 1978, in which she speaks of her early childhood.

Biographical / Historical:

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 (1897-1983).

Related Materials:

Additional photographs of Alma (Schindler) Mahler Werfel located at Bauhaus Archiv, Berlin, Germany.

Provenance:

Lent for microfilming by Ise Gropius and her daughter, Beate Gropius Forberg Johansen, 1982-1983, except for selected items on reel 2393, the handwritten translation of Ise's diary on reel 4130 and cassette tapes, which were donated in 1981, 1983 and 1987, respectively. Some photographs from albums on reel 2764 which would not reproduce were not microfilmed.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Occupation:

Architects  Search this

Educators  Search this

Painters  Search this

Photographers  Search this

Sculptors  Search this

Topic:

Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Germany  Search this

Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- United States  Search this

Industrial design  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Identifier:

AAA.gropwalt

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9d2bbaa43-9f9f-4122-be42-6062c8c9a297

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-gropwalt

Author:

Lee, Chris  Search this

Physical description:

126 pages illustrations, facsimiles, maps, plans, portraits 24 cm

Type:

Books

History

Date:

2022

Topic:

Graphic design (Typography)--History  Search this

Graphic design (Typography)--Political aspects  Search this

Money--History  Search this

Industrial design--History  Search this

Graphic design (Typography)  Search this

Industrial design  Search this

Money  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1161094

Creator:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2018-09-27T18:41:16.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

Design  Search this

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cooperhewitt

Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

YouTube Channel:

cooperhewitt

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_GREBN2pq4Tc

Creator:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum  Search this

Type:

Conversations and talks

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2012-06-01T13:10:41.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

Design  Search this

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cooperhewitt

Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

YouTube Channel:

cooperhewitt

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_JCOylrh6cnk

Artist:

Robert Tait McKenzie, 1867 - 1938  Search this

Sitter:

Violet Oakley, 10 Jun 1874 - 25 Feb 1961  Search this

Medium:

Bronze bas-relief

Dimensions:

Other: 37.4 x 26.9cm (14 3/4 x 10 9/16")

Frame: 58.4 x 41.9 x 2.5cm (23 x 16 1/2 x 1")

Type:

Sculpture

Date:

1925

Topic:

Sculpture\Relief\Bas-relief  Search this

Violet Oakley: Female  Search this

Violet Oakley: Visual Arts\Artist\Portraitist  Search this

Violet Oakley: Visual Arts\Artist\Illustrator  Search this

Violet Oakley: Visual Arts\Art instructor  Search this

Violet Oakley: Visual Arts\Artist\Painter\Muralist  Search this

Violet Oakley: Visual Arts\Artist\Glass artist\Stained glass artist  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Violet Oakley Memorial Foundation

Object number:

NPG.83.12

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

Copyright:

© Robert Tait McKenzie

See more items in:

National Portrait Gallery Collection

Exhibition:

2022 Rehang of Out of Many: Portraits from 1600 to 1900

On View:

NPG, East Gallery 135

Data Source:

National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm42b9bc8c5-4190-485e-b8e4-8be28c502c5a

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NPG.83.12

Medium:

Paper; pen; ink; water soluble markers

Dimensions:

Height x Width: 20 3/4 x 17 3/4 in

Type:

Archival Material

Date:

c. 1971-1979

Topic:

The Cold War (1945-1990)  Search this

Postal Administration  Search this

Object number:

2023.2004.41

See more items in:

National Postal Museum Collection

Data Source:

National Postal Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8feecd157-e572-4f2a-8131-288a6ea08afe

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npm_2023.2004.41

Medium:

Paper; pen; ink; water soluble markers

Dimensions:

Height x Width: 20 3/4 x 17 3/4 in

Type:

Archival Material

Date:

c. 1971-1979

Topic:

The Cold War (1945-1990)  Search this

Postal Administration  Search this

Object number:

2023.2004.42

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National Postal Museum Collection

Data Source:

National Postal Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8e24f36f9-e9cf-43aa-9707-49dffd5e602a

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npm_2023.2004.42

Medium:

Paper; pen; ink; water soluble markers

Dimensions:

Height x Width: 20 3/4 x 17 3/4 in

Type:

Archival Material

Date:

c. 1971-1979

Topic:

Postal Administration  Search this

The Cold War (1945-1990)  Search this

Object number:

2023.2004.43

See more items in:

National Postal Museum Collection

Data Source:

National Postal Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8258899a7-4ed0-466a-91d0-8ef766d5cc43

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npm_2023.2004.43

Medium:

Paper; pen; ink; water soluble markers

Dimensions:

Height x Width: 20 3/4 x 17 3/4 in

Type:

Archival Material

Date:

c. 1971-1979

Topic:

Postal Administration  Search this

The Cold War (1945-1990)  Search this

Object number:

2023.2004.44

See more items in:

National Postal Museum Collection

Data Source:

National Postal Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8f21b320e-6e49-47d4-a9c0-f341e2a2c3f0

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npm_2023.2004.44

Medium:

Paper; pen; ink; water soluble markers

Dimensions:

Height x Width: 20 3/4 x 17 3/4 in

Type:

Archival Material

Date:

c. 1971-1979

Topic:

Postal Administration  Search this

The Cold War (1945-1990)  Search this

Object number:

2023.2004.45

See more items in:

National Postal Museum Collection

Data Source:

National Postal Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm80eedc507-8dcf-4130-988d-f578363a14dd

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npm_2023.2004.45