Walter Adolph Georg Gropius

Place: Berlin

Born: 1883

Death: 1969

Biography:

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. He was a founder of Bauhaus in Weimar (1919). Gropius was also a leading architect of the International Style. He emigrated from Germany to England in 1934 and from England to the United States in 1937, where he spent the rest of his life.