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Walter Gropius

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Profession
Architect
Died
Dec 5, 1969
Zodiac
Taurus
Born in
BerlinGermany
About
Founder of the Bauhaus school and pioneer of the Modernist movement in architecture. Designed Cologne's Werkbund Exhibition in 1914. Helped establish The Architects' Collaborative in Cambridge.
Family
He was born the third child of architect Walter Adolph Gropius and Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber. He married Alma Mahler, who was Gustav Mahler's widow; they divorced in 1920.

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