Walter Groupius papers in the Bauhaus-Archiv, ca. 1919-1937.

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Walter Groupius papers in the Bauhaus-Archiv, ca. 1919-1937.

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This collection consists of photographs of the portion of the Gropius Archive (early papers) housed at the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin. Includes photographs of all Gropius' correspondence, writings (compositions),and press clippings up until 1937 when he came to Harvard. The concordance lists all items in their original order, just as they were numbered by the Bauhaus-Archiv. Some numbers in the Bauhaus-series appear to be missing in the Houghton photograph collection and these are noted in the series IV appendix.

24 boxes (10 linear ft.)

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Bauhaus

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Educational institution. From the description of Photographs of Bauhaus students, teachers, and exhibits, 1919-1933. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81840731 From the description of Postcards about the Bauhaus, 1922-1926. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78683279 The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 by the architect Walter Gropius as a school of art, architecture, and crafts, with the focus on instruction in the unity between the fine and applied arts and i...

Bauhaus-Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung.

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Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969

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Architect, educator. Studied architecture at the Universities of Charlottenburg-Berlin and Munich, Germany from 1903 to 1907. Founded and directed the Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar in 1919, which Gropius moved to Dessau in 1925 and renamed "Bauhaus Dessau". Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 1937 and Chairman of the Department of Architecture from 1938 to 1952. Formed the Architects' Collaborative in Cambridge in 1946. For further information see James ...