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Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius

German-born architect Walter Gropius (born May 18, 1883, in Berlin) helped to launch modern architecture in the 20th century when he was asked by the German government to run a new school called the Bauhaus, in Weimar in 1919. As an art educator, Gropius soon defined the Bauhaus school of design with his 1923 Idee..