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Manon died of polio at age 18, in 1935

Ise Gropius

Ise Gropius  – from Wiki (born Ise Frank) ( March 1 , 1897 in Wiesbaden – June 9 , 1983 in Lexington , Massachusetts ) was a German editor and writer .

After her return to Hanover in 1923, she met the then director of the State Bauhaus in Weimar , later her husband, Walter Gropius , during one of his lectures . Ise Gropius spontaneously left her fiancé at the time, a cousin, and reached Weimar shortly before the start of the 1923 Bauhaus exhibition . Ise and Walter Gropius married in Weimar on October 16 of the same year; Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee were her groomsmen. Together they adopted Beate Forberg , called Ati, after the death of her mother, one of Ise’s two sisters ^[1]

Walter Gropius had three children, and all of them lived in the Gropius House at some point:

Walter Gropius had a daughter named Manon with his first wife, Alma Mahler. Manon Gropius was born in 1916. Tragically, she contracted polio and passed away at the age of 18 in 1935. Gropius and Mahler divorced in 1920, Her parents separated soon after Gropius discovered Alma’s affair with the writer Franz Werfel in the summer of 1918 and the true paternity of her fourth child, Martin Johannes Gropius.

Ati Gropius,  Walter Gropius’ daughter from his second marriage to Ise Gropius. She  lived a long life as an accomplished photographer.

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Ashley Davidoff TheCommonVein.netBeate Gropius: Beate was also Walter Gropius’ daughter from his second marriage to Ise Gropius.