Edgar Brandt

Edgar William Brandt
Born: December 24, 1880
Died: 1960
French Ironworker

Quotes: Gropius

• Quotes: 
• "Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes."
• "Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning."
• "Architecture begins where engineering ends."
• "If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality."
• "Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society."

True Facts: Gropius

• Studied architecture in Berlin and Munich (1903-1907), he received no degree
• In 1910 Gropius set up practice with Adolf Meyer. 
• They designed the Fagus Works in Alfeld an der Leine (1911) and the office building at the Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne (1914), using a combination of masonry and steel construction.
• The aim of the Bauhaus was a "unity of art and technology" to give artistic direction to industry.
• The greatness of Gropius as an educator was that he did not put forward any dogmatic policies, but rather he acted as a balance between the rational, representative, and physical on the one hand and the spiritual, esthetic, and humanitarian on the other.
• Gropius also designed locomotives and railroad sleeping cars (1913-1914), the Adler automobile (1930), and a host of everyday products. 
• He believed in "the common citizenship of all creative work."
• Influences/Influenced: Paul Klee, Josef Albers, Peter Behrens, John Carl Warnecke, Philip Powell

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Walter Gropius

Born: May 18, 1883

Died: June 5, 1969

German architect

Art Educator

Founded the Bauhaus school of design

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