Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer
Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, in 1919. He constructed the Bauhaus building in Dessau, Germany, between 1925 and 1926 by sheathing a reinforced concrete skeleton in glass. His design followed a dictum that architecture should avoid romantic embellishment and whimsy.
Biography
Marcel Breuer was a former Bauhaus student who became a faculty member in 1925, heading the furniture workshop. His objects were geometric, made of modern materials, and mass-produced. Solis Prints offers fine art prints of the Frank Residence Bedside Cases.
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Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer is known for walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus, while Marcel Breuer headed its furniture workshop and designed geometric objects.