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Walter Gropius

geboren 1883 in Berlin, war ein deutscher (seit 1944 US-amerikanischer) Architekt und Gründer des Bauhauses. Neben Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright und Le Corbusier gilt er als ein Pionier der internationalen modernistischen Architektur. 1915 heiratete er Alma Mahler, nach der Scheidung ging er 1923 eine Ehe mit der Journalistin Ise Frank ein. 1969 verstarb er in Boston.

Books

Coverabbildung von ''Du bist mir Kunst''

Annemarie Jaeggi (Edited by) Jörg Rothkamm (Edited by) Alma Mahler Walter Gropius - ‘You Are Art to Me’

The correspondence Alma Mahler – Walter Gropius 1910–1914

In the summer of 1910, Alma Mahler and Walter Gropius meet at a health spa. It is the beginning of a liaison that starts as a passionate affair and develops into a complex relationship full of highs and lows. In approximately four hundred letters, their correspondence tells the story of a remarkable young woman and a now famous architect. Until the death of her husband Gustav in May 1911, Alma Mahler was torn between her involvement with his music, her own activities as a composer and her desire for freedom. At the time, Walter Gropius had little more than his idealistic visions. The book makes the complete correspondence between 1910 and 1914 accessible for the first time, offering entirely new insights into the dramatic life and work of three central protagonists of modernity.