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Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969

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Personal name headingMies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969
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Variant(s)Mies, Ludwig, 1886-1969
Mis van der Roė, Li︠u︡dvig, 1886-1969
Rohe, Ludwig Mies van der, 1886-1969
Rohe, Mies van der, 1886-1969
Van der Rohe, Ludwig Mies, 1886-1969
Misi Fan De Luo, 1886-1969
Mies, Maria Ludwig Michael, 1886-1969
Associated countryGermany United States
LocatedChicago (Ill.)
Birth date1886-03-27
Death date1969-08-17
Place of birthAachen (Germany)
AffiliationIllinois Institute of Technology
Profession or occupationArchitects
Found inNew York. Museum of Modern Art. Mies van der Rohe, 1947.
Yong yuan de jian zhu da shi, 2009: cover (Misi Fan De Luo; Mies van der Rohe)
Wikipedia, viewed August 12, 2022 (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; architect; commonly referred to as Mies; born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies on March 27, 1886, in Aachen, Germany; emigrated to the United States in 1937 and settled in Chicago; appointed head of architecture school at the Armour Institute of Technology (later Illinois Institute of Technology); died August 17, 1969)
Broken glass : Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the fight over a modernist masterpiece, 2021: page 9 (born Maria Ludwig Maria Mies in 1886 and attended the Aachen Cathedral school) page 13 (as a young professional, abandoned the name Maria Ludwig Michael Mies and rechristened himself Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, tacking his mother's surname Rohe onto the Dutch particles suggesting nobility, with umlaut on the "e" in Mies)