Walter Gropius Walter Adolph Gropius (May 18, 1883 – July 5, 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus. Born in Berlin, Walter Gropius was the third son of a building advisor to the government with the same name, and ...Read More
Herbert Bayer Herbert Bayer (1900-1985) was an Austrian graphic designer, painter, photographer, and architect. Bayer apprenticed under the artist Georg Schmidthammer in Linz. Leaving the workshop to study at the Viennese Darmstadt Artists Colony, he became interested in Walter Gropius's Bauhaus manifesto. ...Read More
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies) (March 27, 1886 - August 17, 1969) was an architect and designer. Born in Aachen, Germany, he worked in the family stone-carving business before he joined ...Read More
Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Kandinsky (first name sometimes spelled as "Vasily," "Vassily" or "Vasilii") (December 4, 1866 – December 13, 1944) was a Russian-born painter and art theorist. One of the most important 20th-century artists, alongside Picasso and Matisse, he is credited ...Read More
Josef Albers Josef Albers (1888 - 1976), was a German artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th century. Born ...Read More
Marcel Breuer Architect and furniture designer Marcel Breuer (1902 Pécs, Hungary - 1981 New York City) was an influential modernist. One of the fathers of Modernism, Breuer showed a great interest in modular construction and simple forms. Known as Lajkó, Breuer studied ...Read More
Lyonel Charles Feininger Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871 - January 13, 1956); was a German-American painter and caricaturist. Feininger was born to parents of German descent and grew up in New York City. He moved to Berlin to study at the ...Read More
Johannes Itten Born in Südern-Linden, Switzerland, he had a Friedrich Froebel influenced education and was initially a teacher where he was exposed to the ideas of psychoanalysis. He later enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva but then returned to ...Read More
Paul Klee Paul Klee (December 18, 1879 – June 29, 1940) was a Swiss painter. Klee was born in Münchenbuchsee (near Bern) of Switzerland into a musical family - his father, Hans Klee, taught music at the Hofwil Teacher Seminar near Berne. ...Read More
Gerhard Marcks Gerhard Marcks (born 18 February 1889 in Berlin, died 13 November 1981 in Burgbrohl, Eifel) was a German sculptor, famous for his woodcuts, drawings, lithographs and ceramics. In 1907 Marcks was an apprentice to Richard Scheibe. In 1914 he married ...Read More