Walter Gropius – the Founder and the First Director of the Bauhaus

The German architect Walter Adolph Georg Gropius, 1883–1969, founded the Bauhaus in 1919 as a new type of art school that combined life, craft and art under one roof. He managed the Bauhaus as its director until 1928. To Walter Gropius, the sworn Modernist, ornamentation was a form of untruthfulness: “We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation”.