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Walter Gropius

1883 - 1969

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Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (German pronunciation: [ˈvaltɐ ˈadɔlf ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈɡʁoːpiʊs]; 18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-born American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. He was a founder of Bauhaus in Weimar and taught there for several years, becoming known as a leading proponent of the International Style. Gropius emigrated from Germany to England in 1934 and from England to the United States in 1937, where he spent much of the rest of his life teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In the United States he worked on several projects with Marcel Breuer and with the firm The Architects Collaborative, of which he was a founding partner. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Gropius is the 18th most popular architect (down from 13th in 2019), the 160th most popular biography from Germany (down from 130th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Architect.

Walter Gropius was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus school. He is most famous for his design of the Fagus Factory in Alfeld, Germany.

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Among architects, Walter Gropius ranks 13 out of 518. Before him are Albert Speer. After him are Oscar Niemeyer, Zaha Hadid, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, Francesco Borromini, Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Apollodorus of Damascus, Otto Wagner, and Renzo Piano.

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Among people born in 1883, Walter Gropius ranks 8. Before him are Benito Mussolini, Khalil Gibran, Coco Chanel, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Jaspers, and Anton Webern. After him are Victor Francis Hess, Nikos Kazantzakis, Jaroslav Hašek, Joseph Schumpeter, Lev Kamenev, and Norman Haworth. Among people deceased in 1969, Walter Gropius ranks 10. Before him are Princess Alice of Battenberg, Karl Jaspers, Theodor W. Adorno, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., Otto Stern, and Judy Garland. After him are Franz von Papen, Zakir Husain, Sharon Tate, C. F. Powell, Kliment Voroshilov, and Allen Dulles.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Gropius ranks 160 out of 7,253. Before him are Theodor W. Adorno (1903), Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742), Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), Friedrich Hölderlin (1770), Lothair I (795), and Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767). After him are Queen Silvia of Sweden (1943), Agrippina the Younger (15), George I of Great Britain (1660), Alfred Jodl (1890), Meister Eckhart (1260), and Max Born (1882).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Germany

Among architects born in Germany, Walter Gropius ranks 3. Before him are Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886), and Albert Speer (1905). After him are Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781), Peter Behrens (1868), Arno Breker (1900), Albert Speer (1934), Peter Parler (1330), Frei Otto (1925), Gottfried Semper (1803), Leo von Klenze (1784), and Hans Scharoun (1893).

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