12.21.2010

a man of many faces: 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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3 comments:

  1. I wish you did the writing for those uninformative pseudo-cerebral PBS documentaries. I don't think I would stop smiling.

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