Carl Wilhelm Gropius
Karl Wilhelm Gropius, also Carl Wilhelm Gropius (4 April 1793–20 February 1870), was a Germans, German set painter and Scenic painting, scenic artist, working in the theatres of Berlin. He was also a printmaker and seller and a prolific caricaturist. Life Gropius was born in Braunschweig, the son of Wilhelm Ernst Gropius and his wife Lucie (née Graeffer). When he was still a child the family moved to Berlin where his father opened a mask factory and shop. After training under his father in his teens he travelled in Europe to broaden his artistic education. In Paris he became familiar with the Louis Daguerre#Diorama theatres, diorama theatre invented by Louis Daguerre and Charles Marie Bouton. Returning to Berlin he trained under the artist and architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel as a landscape painter. From 1819 he worked as stage designer, artist and decorator for the ''Hoftheater'' (court theatre) and other Berlin theatres. In this capacity he designed inter alia the st ...
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