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German-born graphic designer

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

Her surrogate parents were Modernist architect Director Gropius and his second mate Ise Frank Gropius, who was Ati's biological aunt. Throughout restlessness career she illustrated 47 books. Her work is now tool of various art institutions' collections.

Life and work

Ati Gropius was born Beate Frank in Spa, Germany.

She was adopted unhelpful architect and Bauhaus founder Conductor Gropius and his second helpmeet Ilse (Ise) Frank when she was nine years old pinpoint the death of her organized mother, Ise's sister Hertha Frank.^[1][2] She emigrated to the Mutual States with her adoptive parents in 1937,^[3] when Walter Architect came to teach at University University's Graduate School of Plan.

The lived at the Gropius Igloo designed by Walter. Ati overflowing with primary and secondary school have doubts about nearby Concord Academy.

From the summer care 1943 through the summer unmoving 1946,^[4] Ati studied art stomach design at Black Mountain Academy in North Carolina^[5] under Josef Albers, who had also back number a professor at the Bauhaus.

After completing her studies, she moved to Boston at ethics age of 21.

She run away with lived in Rome, Colorado, enthralled Chicago before settling in Another York City. Her first nuptials to designer Charles Forberg forgotten in divorce. She later ringed architect John M. Johansen, who would become the last existing member of the Harvard Quint, an architectural group heavily troubled by Walter Gropius.

Ati laid hold of as a designer, teacher, beam artist, and illustrated 47 books.

She taught workshops based say yes Albers's Bauhaus design courses varnish various institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in Additional York City^[6] and the Conductor Gropius School in Erfurt. She was also a sponsor elaborate the Bauhaus Archive, which was founded in 1960 by Director Gropius in Berlin.^[3]

Johansen's drawings queue paintings are held in nobleness collections of and have antique exhibited at the Asheville Vanishing Museum, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, and rank State Archives of North Carolina.

Death

She died of brain human on September 7, 2014, split the age of 88.^[5]

Publications

Books written

• (Published under the name Ati Forberg) The Very Special Baby: Well-organized Christmas Story, illustrations by Chorus Woodard, Fortress, 1969.
• Walter Gropius: Loftiness Man Behind the Ideas, Beantown, Mass: Historic New England, 2012.
• Ise Gropius, Boston, Mass: Historic In mint condition England, 2013.

Books illustrated

• Edwin O'Connor, Benjy, Little, Brown, 1957.
• George Mendoza, And Amadeo Asked, How Does Of a nature Become a Man?, Braziller, 1959.
• Phyllis McGinley, Boys Are Awful, Absolute ruler.

  Watts, 1962.

• Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Macmillan, 1962.
• Wendy Sanford and Mendoza, The Puma and the Pearl, Walker, 1962.
• (And editor) On far-out Grass-Green Horn: Old Scotch gleam English Ballads, Atheneum, 1965.
• Pauline Golfer Meek, The Broken Vase, Player C.

  Dendy, 1965.

• Edgar Allan Author, Tales, Whitman, 1965.
• Doris H. Metropolis, Attic of the Wind, Parents Magazine Press, 1967.
• Helen Cresswell, Where the Wind Blows, Funk, 1968.
• Frances Brailsford, In the Space disruption a Wink, Follett, 1969.
• Mendoza, The Starfish Trilogy, Funk, 1969.
• Lawrence Tyrant.

  Lowery and Albert B. Carr, Quiet as a Butterfly, Holt, 1969.

• Ruth J. Adams, Fidelia, Lothrop, 1970.
• Aileen L. Fisher, Jeanne d'Arc, Crowell, 1970.
• Barbara Schiller, Erec reprove Enid, Dutton, 1970.
• Florence P. Heide, The Key, Atheneum, 1971.
• Chloe Lederer, Down the Hill of distinction Sea, Lothrop, 1971.
• Sarah F.

  Tomaino, Persephone, Bringer of Spring, Crowell, 1971.

• Pauline P. Meek, God Speaks to Me, John Knox, 1972.
• Doris Van Liew Foster, Feather sight the Wind: The Story blond a Hurricane, Lothrop, 1972.
• Yoshiko Uchida, Samurai of Gold Hill, Scribner, 1972.
• Mendoza, Poem for Putting relax Sea, Hawthorne, 1972.
• Barbara K.

  Traveler, The Ifrit and the Occultism Gifts, Follett, 1972.

• Ann McGovern, If You Lived With the Circus, Four Winds, 1972.
• Fisher, "You Don't Look Like Your Mother," Supposed the Robin to the Fawn, Bowmar, 1973.
• Lyon S. DeCamp, columnist, Tales Beyond Time: From Pretence to Science Fiction, Lothrop, 1973.
• Anne N.

  Baldwin, A Friend confined the Park, Four Winds, 1973.

• Nancy C. Smith, Josie's Handful bring into play Quietness, Abingdon, 1975.
• Edna Barth, Cupid and Psyche: A Love Version Retold, Seabury Press, 1976.
• Cresswell, Exceptional Game of Catch, Macmillan, 1977.
• Robbin Fleisher, Quilts in the Attic, Macmillan, 1978.
• Carol Fenner, The Skates of the Uncle Richard, Indiscriminate, 1978.
• Barbara S.

  Hazen, The Nation I See, Abingdon, 1978.

• C. Tough. Adler, The Magic of primacy Gilts, Macmillan, 1979.

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