A Man Who Built the Bauhaus

The future-facing idiom of the Bauhaus, the German design school founded, in 1919, by Walter Gropius, is now antique, but its distinct vision of modern life is not a thing of the past. Fiona MacCarthy’s “Gropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus” (Harvard) is a comprehensive biography of the figure whom the painter Paul Klee, a teacher at the Bauhaus, called “the silver prince.” Gropius fused the city’s arts-and-crafts school and its fine-arts academy under a new name, the Bauhaus, which he adapted from the Bauhütte, the medieval stone mason’s guild.

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