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Walter Gropius

♂  German, 1883–1969

Walter worked at MoMA about 1940 as Competition Judge . He has been in 23 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1932 and 1981.

24 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Photo of the exhibition Modern Architecture: International Exhibition

9 February to 23 March 1932

Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson and Frederick Kiesler, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition

19 November 1934 to 20 January 1935

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art

2 March to 19 April 1936

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Modern Exposition Architecture

8 June to 2 September 1936

Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and William Lescaze, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Architecture in England

10 February to 7 March 1937

Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, William Lescaze and Serge Chermayeff, among others, were involved.

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Wheaton College Competition

28 June to 12 September 1938

Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Eero Saarinen and Edward Durell Stone, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Bauhaus: 1919–1928

7 December 1938 to 30 January 1939

Paul Klee, Vasily Kandinsky, George Grosz and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Three Centuries of American Architecture

15 February to 15 March 1939

Marcel Breuer, Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius and Edward Durell Stone, among others, were involved.

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Smithsonian Competition

12 January to 3 March 1940

Walter Gropius, Eero Saarinen, Edward Durell Stone and Philip L. Goodwin, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Wooden House in America

9–30 September 1941

Marcel Breuer, Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius and Harwell Hamilton Harris, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Built in the U.S.A., 1932–44

24 May to 22 October 1944

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Lesson of War Housing

16 January to 4 March 1945

Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Richard Neutra and Hugh Stubbins Jr., among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Textile Design

29 August to 23 September 1945

Walter Gropius, Edward Durell Stone, Eliot Elisofon and Richard Neutra, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition If You Want to Build a House

8–30 January 1946

Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson and Marcel Breuer, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Two Cities: Planning in North and South America

24 June to 21 September 1947

Walter Gropius, Susanne Wasson-Tucker, Josep Lluís Sert and Paul Lester Wiener, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting and Sculpture in Architecture

3 August to 2 October 1949

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder and Lyonel Feininger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Art in Your Life

5 October to 4 December 1949

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Three Modern Styles

11 July to 5 September 1950

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Fernand Léger and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition De Stijl

16 December 1952 to 15 February 1953

Piet Mondrian, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Josef Albers, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Built in USA: Post-War Architecture

20 January to 15 March 1953

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Signs in the Street

23 March to 2 May 1954

Philip Johnson, Walter Gropius, Mildred Constantine and György Kepes, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 20th Century Design from the Museum Collection

17 December 1958 to 23 February 1959

Arthur Drexler, Man Ray, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Art of the Twenties

14 November 1979 to 22 January 1980

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Marcel Breuer: Furniture and Interiors

22 July to 15 September 1981

László Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius, among others, were involved.