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Born in Berlin, Walter Gropius was the third son of a building advisor to the government with the same name, and Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber ( 1855- 1933) whose family owned a manor near Berlin.
Gropius was an architect, like his father before him, and designed buildings which used modern materials and are often compared to abstract paintings. He founded the Bauhaus, a school of design where students were taught to use modern and innovative materials to create original furniture and buildings.
Gropius married Alma Schindler after the death of her husband Gustav Mahler, and they had a daughter, Manon ( 1916- 1935). When she died of polio at age seventeen, composer Alban BergInset of portrait of Berg by Arnold Schoenberg Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( February 9, 1885 December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School along with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, producing works that comb wrote his Violin ConcertoAlban Berg's Violin Concerto was written in 1935 (the score is dated 11 August 1935). It is probably Berg's best known and most often performed piece. Conception and composition The piece stemmed from a commission from the violinist Louis Krasner. When he in her memory. Gropius' marriage to Alma did not last and Alma later married again, to Franz WerfelFranz Werfel ( September 10, 1890 August 26, 1945) was a German language novelist, playwright, and poet. Biography Born in Prague (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), he was a contemporary and colleague of Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Martin Buber, and o.
Gropius left Germany in 1934Events January-April January 1 Alcatraz becomes a federal prison. January 7 First Flash Gordon comic strip is published. January 10 Execution of Marinus van der Lubbe January 24 Einstein visits White House January 26 The Apollo Theater opens in Harlem, Ne due to the rising power of the Nazi Party and lived and worked in BritainThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly and then AmericaThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in. He died in 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was known to be have a snappy sense of style and was often seen wearing a bowtie.
Gropius and Alma are mentioned in Tom Lehrer's song Alma.
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