{"id":31221,"date":"2026-07-14T09:32:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=31221"},"modified":"2026-07-14T10:10:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:10:50","slug":"ise-gropius","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/discover\/artist\/ise-gropius\/","title":{"rendered":"Ise Gropius"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern header-text' data-pattern='ho\/header-kunstler'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\n\n<div  class='color-bg-highlight color-fg-highlight header-space header-height-read-only padding-bottom-6'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-offset-1 col-md-7'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-3'><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot \"><div class=\"margin-bottom-3\">\n\t<swup-back>Back<\/swup-back>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-offset-1 col-md-7'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n<h1 class='ho-sd-h2' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Ise Gropius<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 text-align-center col-md-offset-1 col-md-3'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<div class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-wrapper\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\" data-lane-item-count=\"3\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-fluid header-biography-list  cf-gutter-1 cf-side-1\">\n\t\t\t<ul class=\"wp-block wp-block-ho-grid row\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-item col col-xs-12\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>Author, executive assistant and photographer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-item col col-xs-12\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>born on 1 March 1897 in Wiesbaden<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-item col col-xs-12\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>died on 9 June 1983 in Lexington<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-3 col-md-offset-5 ho-pattern-optional-image'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline \" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_enN14K\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 31741,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_ise-gropius-213x300.jpg\",\"width\":213,\"height\":300,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":17099},\"large\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_ise-gropius-728x1024.jpg\",\"width\":728,\"height\":1024,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":111007},\"small\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_ise-gropius-313x440.jpg\",\"width\":313,\"height\":440,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":30890},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_ise-gropius-413x580.jpg\",\"width\":413,\"height\":580,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":47580},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_ise-gropius-512x720.jpg\",\"width\":512,\"height\":720,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":65551},\"original\":{\"file\":\"bha26_portrait_ise-gropius.jpg\",\"width\":759,\"height\":1067}},\n\"alt\" : \"A woman in historical clothing sits on a stone wall, with a focused expression and timeless elegance.\",\n\"path\" : \"\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/\",\n\"video\" : null,\n\"autoplay\" : null,\n\"youtube\" : null,\n\"youtubelabel\" : \"play\",\n\"brightness\" : 100,\n\"crop\" : {\"x\":0.5,\"y\":0.5},\n\"background\" : true,\n\"scale\" : 1,\n\"zoom\" : false,\n\"annotations\" : null}<\/script>\n<div class=\"height-container \" style=\"padding-bottom:120%; 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After a brief stay in England, where she learned the language, she began working in Germany in 1918, first at a bookstore in Hannover and then at a newspaper in Munich. In 1923 she met Bauhaus director Walter Gropius. They married that same year. From then on, Ise Gropius was substantially involved in the success of her husband and the school of art and architecture founded by him. She was responsible for his correspondence, edited and translated his texts, managed public relations and oversaw the Friends of the Bauhaus association. She additionally documented their life at the school in a journal and two photo albums. In 1928 they left the Bauhaus. The couple moved to Berlin and travelled to the US later that year. Numerous photos of this country, its architecture and its people were created there. The precise authorship of these photographs remains unclear to this day. They are seen as a collective work by the couple. Nonetheless, because Ise Gropius increasingly began to publish her own texts and travel accounts in 1928 and one of her photos also appeared in print, there is much to indicate that a number of these photos are by her alone. The couple moved to London in 1934. Ise Gropius continued to write texts and publish work in newspapers. When Walter Gropius was invited to become a professor of architecture at Harvard in 1937, they emigrated to the US. From then on, Ise Gropius increasingly devoted her attention to her husband\u2019s work and to spreading the Bauhaus idea in the US. She died in Lexington, Massachusetts, on 9 June 1983.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ise Gropius was born as Ilse Frank in Wiesbaden on 1 March 1897. 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