a man of many faces: walter gropius

Walter Gropius

Weimar Bauhaus 

Germany

1921

Looking fit on a bike

1898

Looking happy his 86th birthday celebration

Cambridge

1969

Looking sharp as a cadet in the 15th 

Hussae Regiment

Wandsbeck

1904

Looking kinda hot as a student at the

Technischen Hochschule

Munich

1905

Looking like a dork

Spain

1907

Looking warm while recieving the 

Iron Cross

Somewhere in Germany

1914

Looking like a bored soldier

(Nice log shelter in the backgound, wonder if he designed it...)

The Vosges

1916

Looking well-dressed

in a photo sent to Lily Hildebrant

Germany

1921

Looking attentive with Kandinsky and J.J.P. Oud

Weimar

1920s

Looking kinda sad....

Germany

1923

Looking self-satisfied soon after his marriage to

Ise Frank

Germany

1920s

Sporting a very unfortunate haircut

with Paul Klee and Bela Bartok

Dessau

1927

Hiding behind what appears to be 2 men dressed as

women.

Sommerfeld House

Germany

1920s

Out of the blue,

looking like a hillbilly, and posing with a yucca plant

Arizona

1928

Boys will be boys...

Playing bocce and definitely not looking as good as 

Xanti Schawinsky

Ascona

1930

Really, really, looking like a dork while skiing.

Switzerland

1930s

Birthday tea with the Prichards

London

1935

Looking  abstract....

(This is a caricature of Gropius painted on a tile by

Max Ernst)

London

1936

(destroyed)

Looking like a film still while departing from 

England

1930s

Looking comfortable on his screened porch

Lincoln, Massachusetts

1930s

Looking dignified arriving in the 

United States

1937

Looking fatherly with Ati

Lincoln

1938

Looking like a barracuda killer

Key West

1940

Looking professorial with Moholy-Nagy at the 

Institute of Design

Chicago

1945

Looking like MC Hammer

with Joseph Hudnut

Chicago

1942

Looking like an award winning Grandpa

Lincoln

1958

Sporting a sweet bowtie

with 

Mies van der Rohe 

1953

Same bowtie, different award

Sao Paulo

1954

Looking imperial

Katsura

1954

Looking like Tom Wolfe

with Pietro Belluschi 

while at work on the Pan Am Building

1950s

Yucking it up with Le Corbusier and Crew

1955

Starting to look old

West Berlin

1962

Looking power with Max Taut and Habs Scharoun

Berlin

1962

Arriving in style at a ground breaking ceremony

Cleveland

1965

Looking humbled at his 85 birthday celebration

Cambridge

1968

Riding off into the sunset....

Arizona

1968

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