Walter and Ise Gropius slides
name: label: Creator
content: Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969
label: Names
content: Gropius, Ise
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1982 by the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University. Originally ca. 340 slides lent. 36 of those slides were duplicates and subsequently given to AAA.
creator: label: Creator
content: Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Architect, educator and founder of the Bauhaus school. Born in Berlin, Walter Gropius studied at the University of Charlottenburg-Berlin and Munich. Following European travel and apprenticeship with Peter Behrens in Berlin, he established his own practice in 1910. After military service in WWI, he became director of the School of Applied Arts and the Academy of Arts, united the two and named the new institute Bauhaus Dessau in 1925. Between 1934 and 1937, he had a private practice in London. From 1938 to 1952, Gropius was chairman of Harvard's Graduate School of Design and maintained a private practice with Marcel Breuer from 1938 to 1941. Gropius married Alma Schindler, Gustav Mahler's widow, in 1915. In 1923, he married Ise (or Ilse) Franck.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1940-1968
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.gropwals
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Reproduction Note
content: All duplicates.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 36 slides (ca. 1940-1968) of Walter and Ise Gropius, their home in Lincoln, Mass., and their art collection.