![]() The Bauhaus manifesto would be drafted that same year, upon negotiating the merger of the Academy of Fine Arts with the disbanded School of Arts and Crafts, to create the Staatliches Bauhaus. ![]() A few years later in 1919 he became chairman of the Work Council for Art with “the aim is an alliance of the arts under the wing of great architecture.” Yet somehow during the middle of the war, in 1916, he submits a failed proposal to establish “a school that could provide artistic guidance to industry, trade and the crafts”. While serving in the First World War, Gropuis was wounded and earned two Iron Crosses. Here, Gropius is colleagues in architectural design with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who also joined the studio in 1908, and Le Corbusier, in 1910, shortly before Gropius left to start his own architectural design office. ![]() A year later, in 1908, he went to work in the office of architect Peter Behrens, a founder of the Deutsche Werkbund association.
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