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Rosenthal Teacup Studio Line TAC 300 ml
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Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius began his architectural training in Munich in 1903 and continued it in Berlin. In 1907, he joined the architectural firm of Peter Behrens. Three years later he established himself as an independent architect and industrial designer. His first major commission was the Fagus factory in Alfeld (1911), a very progressive structure and the first factory whose walls were made almost entirely of glass.
In early March 1919, he succeeded architect Bruno Taut as president of the Berlin-based Arbeitsrat für Kunst, a broad-based association to promote (international) cooperation among artists and with the aim of making artists aware of their social role in the reconstruction of post-World War I Europe through publications, congresses and exhibitions. This council ended ingloriously in 1921 and its ideals were not successfully taken up by the CIAM until much later, in 1928.
In 1919, Gropius founded the Bauhaus. This leading academy of architecture and applied art emerged from the Grossherzoglich-Sächsiche Hochschule für Bildende Kunst and the Grossherzoglich-Sächsische Kunstgewerbeschule, both in Weimar. From 1925, the Bauhaus was based in Dessau. The Bauhaus remained under his direction until 1928. Around this time, Gropius was counted among the Big Four of architecture along with Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and J.J.P. Oud.
Gropius has worked since 1963 for Rosenthal. He created the multiple award-winning tea set "TAC I" and the coffee set "TAC II. Thus, he was the inspiration for the porcelain and glass form 'TAC o2' of the 21st century. 'TAC I' served as an example of contemporary design and as such was included in the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
