Gropius Famous Door Handles Photo
He studied architecture at the beginning of the twentieth century before entering the design bureau of peter behrens in 1907 along with mies van der rohe and corbusier.
Gropius famous door handles photo. Loevy in any quantities until 1923. This door handle and the corresponding window handle by walter gropius were almost certainly designed 1923 but not manufactured by the berlin company s a. In 1923 gropius designed his famous door handles see today as an icon of 20th century design and often cited as one of the most influential items of applied art produced by bauhaus. Walter gropius adolf meyer.
Such handles were available with various types of angular and rounded plates roses and escutcheons. This door handle and the corresponding window handle by walter gropius were almost certainly designed 1923 but not manufactured by the berlin company s a. Loevy in any quantities until 1923. 2 3 8 x 7 3 4 x 6 6 x 19 7 x 15 2 cm mounted on wood base 10 x 4 3 4 x 3 3 8 25 4 x 12 1 x 8 6 cm.
Gift of jo carole and ronald s. History types also when the bauhaus relocated from weimar to dessau gropius himself designed and built the school building and faculty. Walter adolph georg gropius 18 may 1883 5 july 1969 was a german architect and founder of the bauhaus school who along with alvar aalto ludwig mies van der rohe le corbusier and frank lloyd wright is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture he is a founder of bauhaus in weimar 1919. Gropius was also a leading architect of the international style.