This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
The collection consists of personal correspondence between Isle Gropius and Clara or Arnold Brecht. The majority of the letters are in German and date from 1940 until 1974.
1940-1974
This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
Source of acquisition--Donated in 1974?. Accession number-1974.010.
Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Ise or Ilse Gropius (born Ilse Frank) was married to Walter Gropius, the German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School in Dessau, from 1923 until his death in 1969. The couple moved from Britain to Lincoln, Massachusetts in the spring 1937. They had one daughter, Ati Gropius.
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| Bauhaus -- : Archives | CLIO Catalog | ArchiveGRID |
| Gropius, Ilse | CLIO Catalog | ArchiveGRID |
| Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969 | CLIO Catalog | ArchiveGRID |