Walter Gropius — Statement Trio | Bauhaus Building Sketches | Architecture Art Print

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Walter Gropius — Statement Trio | Bauhaus Building Sketches | Architecture Art PrintWalter Gropius (18831969) was the founder and first director of the Bauhaus the architect and educator who created the most influential art school in history. Before and after the Bauhaus (19191928), he was one of the pioneers of modern architecture, responsible for landmark buildings in Germany, England, and the United States. His building sketches rapid, confident, exploratory offer an intimate window into the creative process of a mind that

The tradition produced some of the most formally sophisticated and emotionally subtle images in the history of art: women at mirrors

Henri Matisse (1869–1954) was one of the towering figures of 20th-century art — the founder of Fauvism

and decorative intelligence that characterises the best of Meiji applied art

the Simurgh

and teacher who became one of the Bauhaus's most visionary figures

Ludwig Deutsch (1855–1935) was an Austrian-born painter who became the supreme master of Orientalist interior realism — an artist whose obsessive attention to Islamic tilework

Fritz Müller (1869–1939) was a German landscape painter whose quietly lyrical depictions of the German countryside — particularly the Alpine and Tyrolean regions — demonstrate a refined command of plein air observation in the tradition of the Munich School

imagistic poetry of Bengal's rivers

a comedy that ends with one of the most emotionally devastating final shots in cinema history

saints that look defeated

and Woman Reading a Letter demonstrate a precision of observation — particularly in his handling of light falling through windows — that astonished contemporaries and continues to inspire painters today

His Moorish portraits — elders

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