Gropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus

560 Pages·2019·454.44 MB·english

by  Fiona MacCarthy

Gropius

FIONA MacCARTHY

GROPIUS
The Man Who Built
the Bauhaus
The Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
2019
First published in 2019
by Faber & Faber Limited as Walter Gropius: Visitionary Founder of the Bauhaus
Bloomsbury House
United Kingdom
© Fiona MacCarthy, 2019
All rights reserved
Typeset by Faber & Faber Limited
Printed in the United States of America
First Harvard University Press edition, 2019
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication
data is available from the Library of Congress
ISBN 978-0-674-73785-3 (cloth : alk. paper)
To Richard Calvocoressi

Contents
Gropius Family Tree ix
Preface: The Silver Prince 1
FIRST LIFE • GERMANY
1 Berlin 1883–1907 11
2 Spain 1907–1908 23
3 Berlin 1908–1910 31
4 Vienna and Alma Mahler 1910–1913 44
5 Gropius at War 1914–1918 72
6 Bauhaus Weimar and Lily Hildebrandt 1919–1920 102
7 Bauhaus Weimar and Maria Benemann 1920–1922 130
8 Bauhaus Weimar and Ise Gropius 1923–1925 145
9 Bauhaus Dessau 1925–1926 174
10 Bauhaus Dessau 1927–1928 193
11 America 1928 211
12 Berlin 1928–1932 221
13 Berlin 1933–1934 249
SECOND LIFE • ENGLAND
14 London, Berlin, Rome 1934 273
15 London 1934 292
16 London 1935 311
17 London 1935–1936 324
18 London 1936–1937 346
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Contents
THIRD LIFE • AMERICA
19 Harvard 1937–1939 361
20 Harvard and the Second World War 1940–1944 389
21 Return to Berlin 1945–1947 409
22 Harvard and TAC 1948–1952 423
23 Wandering Star: Japan, Paris, London, Baghdad, 441
Berlin 1953–1959
24 New England 1960–1969 467
Afterword: Reverberations 483
Sources and References 487
Acknowledegments 529
Index 533
viii
Gropius Family Tree