Rebel with a cause: how the founder of #Bauhaus changed the world | Art and design | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/mar/01/rebel-with-a-cause-how-the-founder-of-bauhaus-changed-the-world
Arrogant and charmless, obsessed with his own image, even phoney – this is how #Walter_Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, the most influential of all art schools, is remembered. He is the rigid disciplinarian, the architect unable to draw. In the five years I’ve spent writing about Gropius’s life, I have often been treated as crazy for taking on such an unsympathetic subject. The architectural historian Joseph Rykwert described Gropius as someone “who seemed to have fewer redeeming features than many of his kind … his pinched humourless egotism was unrelieved by sparkle”. But these received ideas need to be challenged. Why have people got him so wrong?
