Ati forberg biography of christopher

Beate Eveliene “Ati” Gropius Forberg Johansen attended Black Mountain College from the summer of 1943 through the summer of 1946, including the summers of 1944, and 1945.

She was the daughter of Walter and Ise Gropius. Ati and her parents fled Germany in 1933, traveling to England and later the United States.

Ati forberg biography of christopher

Walter Gropius, educator, architect and founder of the Bauhaus, accepted an invitation to teach architecture at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. From 1938-52 he was Chairman of the Department of Architecture.

Gropius first visited Black Mountain in December 1937. His former Bauhaus colleagues, Josef and Anni Albers and Xanti Schawinksy, were teaching there, and the visit was an occasion both for a visit with friends and for an informal discussion of plans for the development of the Lake Eden property which the college had purchased in June 1937.

While a student at Black Mountain College, Ati studied art with Josef