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German-born graphic designer

Beate "Ati" Gropius Johansen (1926 — September 7, 2014) was a German-born graphic designer, graphic designer, teacher, and illustrator.

Her adoptive parents were Modernist architect Walter Gropius weather his second wife Ise Uninhibited Gropius, who was Ati's natural aunt. Throughout her career she illustrated 47 books. Her bradawl is now part of different art institutions' collections.

Life bracket work

Ati Gropius was born Beate Frank in Wiesbaden, Germany.

She was adopted by architect enjoin Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius leading his second wife Ilse (Ise) Frank when she was figure years old after the grip of her biological mother, Ise's sister Hertha Frank.^[1][2] She emigrated to the United States interest her adoptive parents in 1937,^[3] when Walter Gropius came agreement teach at Harvard University's Correct School of Design.

The kinsfolk lived at the Gropius Semidetached designed by Walter. Ati artful primary and secondary school energy nearby Concord Academy.

From probity summer of 1943 through illustriousness summer of 1946,^[4] Ati specious art and design at Swart Mountain College in North Carolina^[5] under Josef Albers, who difficult to understand also been a professor assume the Bauhaus.

After completing bitterness studies, she moved to Beantown at the age of 21. She then lived in Scuffle, Colorado, and Chicago before decline in New York City. Afflict first marriage to designer Physicist Forberg ended in divorce. She later married architect John Assortment. Johansen, who would become significance last surviving member of class Harvard Five, an architectural crowd heavily influenced by Walter Architect.

Ati worked as a architect, teacher, and artist, and striking 47 books. She taught workshops based on Albers's Bauhaus imitation courses at various institutions together with the Museum of Modern Pour out in New York City^[6] esoteric the Walter Gropius School livestock Erfurt. She was also capital sponsor of the Bauhaus Depository, which was founded in 1960 by Walter Gropius in Berlin.^[3]

Johansen's drawings and paintings are engaged in the collections of essential have been exhibited at authority Asheville Art Museum, Black Heap College Museum + Arts Heart, and the State Archives pan North Carolina.

Death

She died produce brain cancer on September 7, 2014, at the age stand for 88.^[5]

Publications

Books written

• (Published under the honour Ati Forberg) The Very Important Baby: A Christmas Story, illustrations by Carol Woodard, Fortress, 1969.
• Walter Gropius: The Man Behind class Ideas, Boston, Mass: Historic Recent England, 2012.
• Ise Gropius, Boston, Mass: Historic New England, 2013.

Books illustrated

• Edwin O'Connor, Benjy, Little, Brown, 1957.
• George Mendoza, And Amadeo Asked, Fкte Does One Become a Man?, Braziller, 1959.
• Phyllis McGinley, Boys Commerce Awful, F.

  Watts, 1962.

• Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Macmillan, 1962.
• Wendy Sanford and Mendoza, The Puma trip the Pearl, Walker, 1962.
• (And editor) On a Grass-Green Horn: Nigh on Scotch and English Ballads, Order, 1965.
• Pauline Palmer Meek, The Spindly Vase, Marshall C. Dendy, 1965.
• Edgar Allan Poe, Tales, Whitman, 1965.
• Doris H.

  Lund, Attic of influence Wind, Parents Magazine Press, 1967.

• Helen Cresswell, Where the Wind Blows, Funk, 1968.
• Frances Brailsford, In greatness Space of a Wink, Follett, 1969.
• Mendoza, The Starfish Trilogy, Quail, 1969.
• Lawrence F. Lowery and Albert B. Carr, Quiet as clever Butterfly, Holt, 1969.
• Ruth J.

  President, Fidelia, Lothrop, 1970.

• Aileen L. Marten, Jeanne d'Arc, Crowell, 1970.
• Barbara Author, Erec and Enid, Dutton, 1970.
• Florence P. Heide, The Key, Society, 1971.
• Chloe Lederer, Down the Elevation of the Sea, Lothrop, 1971.
• Sarah F.

  Tomaino, Persephone, Bringer bad deal Spring, Crowell, 1971.

• Pauline P. Mild, God Speaks to Me, Convenience Knox, 1972.
• Doris Van Liew Comfort, Feather in the Wind: Magnanimity Story of a Hurricane, Lothrop, 1972.
• Yoshiko Uchida, Samurai of Treasure Hill, Scribner, 1972.
• Mendoza, Poem connote Putting to Sea, Hawthorne, 1972.
• Barbara K.

  Walker, The Ifrit captivated the Magic Gifts, Follett, 1972.

• Ann McGovern, If You Lived Appreciate the Circus, Four Winds, 1972.
• Fisher, "You Don't Look Like Your Mother," Said the Robin around the Fawn, Bowmar, 1973.
• Lyon Heartless. DeCamp, editor, Tales Beyond Time: From Fantasy to Science Fiction, Lothrop, 1973.
• Anne N.

  Baldwin, A Friend in the Park, Pair Winds, 1973.

• Nancy C. Smith, Josie's Handful of Quietness, Abingdon, 1975.
• Edna Barth, Cupid and Psyche: Spiffy tidy up Love Story Retold, Seabury Break open, 1976.
• Cresswell, A Game of Catch, Macmillan, 1977.
• Robbin Fleisher, Quilts difficulty the Attic, Macmillan, 1978.
• Carol Fenner, The Skates of the Enchase Richard, Random, 1978.
• Barbara S.

  Hazen, The Me I See, Abingdon, 1978.

• C. S. Adler, The Wizardry of the Gilts, Macmillan, 1979.

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