Gropius-Bau
The Martin-Gropius-Bau, known in everyday speech as the Gropius Bau, is Berlin’s purpose-built stage for exhibitions in a neo-Renaissance setting. Construction runs from 1877 to 1881, and it opens officially in 1881—an era when an architect’s name could become a building’s identity. The project is credited to Martin Gropius, a great uncle of Walter Gropius, together with Heino Schmieden, and the result is a roughly quadratic footprint with each side about 70 meters and a height around 26 meters. Inside, the exhibition rooms ring an atrium decorated with mosaics and with the coats of arms of German states by sculptor Otto Lessing. The building begins as Berlin’s Museum of Applied Arts, but after World War I it becomes a home for the Museum for Prehistory and Early History and the East Asian Art collection. …
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