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ID: 500006293
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500006293
 
Record Type: Person
Rohe, Mies van der (German architect, 1886-1969, active in the United States)

Note: Born 27 March 1886. Mies was one of the leading figures of Modernist architecture. He spent the early years of his career in Germany, working for various construction firms and eventually opening his own architecture studio in Berlin. In 1938 Mies moved to Chicago to established the department of architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology (then known as the Armour Institute), and eventually, he designed its new campus while designing buildings for his architecture practice. American architect, born in Germany.

Names:
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig (preferred,V,index,LC,Dutch-P,NA)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (V,display)
Mies, Ludwig (V)
Mis van der Rohe, Liudvig (V)
Rohe, Ludwig Mies van der (V)
Rohe, Mies van der (V,English-P,NA,U)
Van der Rohe, Ludwig Mies (V)
Mis van der Roė, Li︠u︡dvig (U)
רוהה, מיס ון דר (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)
Mies van der Rohe, Maria Ludwig Michael (U)
Mies Van der Rohe, Ludwig (U)
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe (U)

Nationalities:
German (preferred)
American
Austrian

Roles:
artist (preferred)
architect
designer
teacher
furniture designer

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Aachen (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) (inhabited place)
Died:  Chicago (Cook county, Illinois, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   1912-1918  Germany (Europe) (nation)
active:   1918-1938  Berlin (Berlin state, Germany) (inhabited place)
active:   1938-1969  Chicago (Cook county, Illinois, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
client was ....  Wagner, Martin  
..................  (German architect, urban planner, and art critic, 1885-1957) [500027050]
collaborated with ....  Graeser, Camille  1927
................................  (Swiss painter and interior designer, 1892-1980) [500016403]
collaborated with ....  Holabird & Root  in 1942-1943 and 1958
................................  (American architectural firm, established ca. 1928) [500033200]
collaborated with ....  Reich, Lilly  
................................  (German designer, 1885-1947) [500248275]
colleague of ....  Bassett, Florence Knoll  
......................  (American furniture designer and entrepreneur, 1917-2019) [500108516]
director of ....  Holsman, Holsman, Klekamp and Taylor  from 1949 to 1951
....................  (American architectural firm, active 1928-1953) [500033104]
employee was ....  Duckett, Edward Austin  [unidentified]
......................  (American architect, draftsman and teacher, born 1920) [500045511]
employee was ....  Goldsmith, Myron  1946-1953
......................  (American architect and engineer, 1918-1996) [500018794]
employee was ....  Haid, David  1951-1960
......................  (American and Canadian architect, 1928-1993) [500034392]
founder of ....  Pace Associates  form 1949 to 1957
..................  (American architectural firm, active Chicago, Illinois, United States, 1949-1957) [500033105]
partner was (firm to person) ....  Bluhm, Norman  1937-1941
................................................  (American painter, 1921-1999) [500027802]
professor at (person to institution) ....  Bauhaus  
................................................................  (German art school, 1919-1933) [500125058]
student of ....  Behrens, Peter  
..................  (German architect, painter, and designer, 1868-1940) [500022843]
teacher of ....  Blaser, Werner  
..................  (Swiss architect and author, born 1924) [500030955]
teacher of ....  Clemens, Roman  
..................  (German painter, sculptor, and architect, 1910-1922) [500102349]
teacher of ....  Danforth, George Edson  
..................  (American architect and draftsman, born 1916) [500034373]
teacher of ....  Dearstyne, Howard  
..................  (American architect, active 20th century) [500034415]
teacher of ....  Duckett, Edward Austin  at the Illinois Institute of Technology from 1944 to 1950
..................  (American architect, draftsman and teacher, born 1920) [500045511]
teacher of ....  Genther, Charles  
..................  (American architect, engineer, city planner and professor, 1907-1987) [500055215]
teacher of ....  Goldberg, Bertrand  1932 to 1933
..................  (American architect, 1913-1997) [500011108]
teacher of ....  Goldsmith, Myron  1946-1953
..................  (American architect and engineer, 1918-1996) [500018794]
teacher of ....  O’Neal, Kenneth Roderick  
..................  (American artist, 1908-1989) [500778783]
teacher of ....  Roche, Kevin  
..................  (American architect, 1922-2019, born in Ireland) [500032415]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Rohe, Mies van der (I)

Biographies:
(German architect, 1886-1969, active in the United States) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American architect, born in Germany, 1886-1969) ..... [AVERY]
(German architect, 1886-1969) ..... [BHA]
(American and German architect and designer, born Aachen (Germany), 1886; died Chicago (Illinois, United States), 1969; active Germany, before 1938 and United States, from 1938) ..... [CCA]
(American architect, 1886-1969) ..... [AVERY]
(German architect, 1886-1969) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, 1886-1969) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, born Germany. 1886-1969) ..... [MoMA]
(German architect, 1886-1969) ..... [IMJ]
(artist, probably Austrian) ..... [Belvedere]
(artist) ..... [Belvedere]
(German architect, 1886-1969) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
רוהה, מיס ון דר ........ [IMJ]
..........................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ........ [GRISC, MoMA, VP]
.............................................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
.............................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
.............................................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe ........ [Belvedere, VP]
..............................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Mies, Ludwig ........ [CCA, GRL]
..........................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
..........................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 80057077
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig ........ [AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, CCA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred]
...............................................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
...............................................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
...............................................  CCA Authority File (1980-)
...............................................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
...............................................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
...............................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 80057077
...............................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 228797
Mies Van der Rohe, Ludwig ........ [Belvedere Preferred]
................................................  Archiv des Belvedere database: Künstlerdokumentation (n.d.) 19752
Mies van der Rohe, Maria Ludwig Michael ........ [RKD]
.........................................................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 228797
Mis van der Roė, Li︠u︡dvig ........ [GRL]
.................................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 80057077
Mis van der Rohe, Liudvig ........ [CCA]
...............................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
Rohe, Ludwig Mies van der ........ [AVERY, CCA, GRL, RKD]
...............................................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
...............................................  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1963-)
...............................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 80057077
...............................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 228797
Rohe, Mies van der ........ [CCA, GRL, IMJ Preferred]
..................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
..................................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
..................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 80057077
Van der Rohe, Ludwig Mies ........ [CCA, GRL]
................................................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
................................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 80057077

Subject: ........ [AVERY, Belvedere, BHA, CCA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, Grove Art, IMJ, MoMA, RKD, VP]
....................  Achilles and Myhrum, Illinois Institute of Technology (1986) 6
....................  Archiv des Belvedere database: Künstlerdokumentation (n.d.) 19752
....................  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1963-)
....................  Avery Obituary Index [n.d.]
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................  CCA Authority File (1980-)
....................  Contemporary Architects (1987)
....................  Contemporary Architects [n.d.]
....................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) I, 970
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n80057077
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n80057077
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
....................  Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (1982)
....................  Portoghesi, Dizionario di architettura e urbanistica (1968-1969)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 228797
....................  Schulze, Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography (1985) 223
....................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Künstler (1980-1986)
....................  Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) (2002-)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q41508
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, CCA]
.......... Contemporary Architects [n.d.]
.......... Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 27 June 2002
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