Walter Gropius
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Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. He was a founder of Ba
Portrait by Louis Held, c. 1919
Gropius's Monument to the March Dead (1921) was dedicated to the memory of nine workers who died in Weimar resisting the Kapp Putsch.
Modern reconstruction of Gropius's house in Dessau which was destroyed during World War II.
Gropius with Harry Seidler in Sydney, Australia, in 1954
Alma Mahler
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Alma Mahler-Werfel was an Austrian composer, author, editor, and socialite. Musically active from her early years, she became a fixture of Vienna's fin de siècle cultural scene, and struck up friendsh
Walter Gropius
…who fought under Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher at the Battle of Waterloo, had shared a flat as a bachelor. In 1915, Gropius married Alma Mahler (1879–1964), widow of Gustav Mahler. Walter and Alma's daughter, named Manon after Walter's mother, was born in 1916. When Manon died of polio at age…
Mahler in 1909
Gustav Mahler in 1909
Alma Mahler and the daughters Maria (at left) and Anna (at right) with her first husband Gustav Mahler; cabinet card photo c. 1906
House of Franz Werfel and Alma Mahler in Sanary-sur-Mer