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Born May 18, 1883 · Berlin, Germany
Awards: Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Royal Gold Medal, Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt, Ernst Reuter Medal, Albert Medal, Johann Heinrich Merck Honour
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture.