• Walter Paepcke (June 29, 1896 – April 13, 1960) was an American businessman and philanthropist who was prominent in the mid-20th century. A longtime executive...
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  • philanthropist and promoter, wife of Walter Walter Paepcke (1896–1960), American industrialist and philanthropist Hendrik von Paepcke (born 1974), a German equestrian...
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    industrialist Walter Paepcke bought many properties in the city in the 1950s and redeveloped them. Today it is home to three institutions, two of which Paepcke helped...
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    the main spine of the Elk Mountains. Founded 78 years ago in 1946 by Walter Paepcke, Aspen was the first ski area venture of the Aspen Skiing Company. It...
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  • and racing champion, Walter Paepcke, a Chicago industrialist, Judge William E. Doyle, James J. Johnston, and H. F. Klock. Paepcke also founded cultural...
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  • Colorado, its original home. The institute was largely the creation of Walter Paepcke, a Chicago businessman who had become inspired by the Great Books program...
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    Germany in Munich. In 1937, on the recommendation of Walter Gropius, and at the invitation of Walter Paepcke, the Chairman of the Container Corporation of America...
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  • resort. Aspen hosted the FIS World Championships in 1950. Paepcke with her husband Walter also played an important role in bringing the Goethe Bicentennial...
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  • gravel airstrip opened on the Stapleton ranch in 1946, promoted by Walter Paepcke and John Spachner. The airstrip was open to the public, but was mostly...
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    Books of the Western World. University trustee and Chicago businessman Walter Paepcke was inspired by the seminar to found the Aspen Institute. In 1937, when...
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    Great Books seminar inspired Chicago businessman and university trustee Walter Paepcke to found the Aspen Institute, Adler taught philosophy to business executives...
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  • of the Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation. Under the leadership of Walter Paepcke, CCA was a patron of graphic arts and design. The company amassed a...
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    Festival and School was founded in 1949 by Chicago businessman Walter Paepcke and Elizabeth Paepcke as a two-week bicentennial celebration of the 18th-century...
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    Mendelsohn – television producer and writer Claes Oldenburg – sculptor Walter Paepcke - industrialist, philanthropist and founder of Aspen Skiing Company...
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    Scott Porter from 1993 until his death in 2004. Nitze's brother-in-law, Walter Paepcke, founded the Aspen Institute and Aspen Skiing Company. Nitze continued...
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  • Bicentennial in 1949. The Aspen Institute was founded by Walter Paepcke in 1950 in Aspen, Colorado. Paepcke was a Chicago businessman and the founder of the Container...
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    Bauhaus (category Walter Gropius buildings)
    Bauhaus school under the sponsorship of industrialist and philanthropist Walter Paepcke. This school became the Institute of Design, part of the Illinois Institute...
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    residents struggled to make a living. After World War II it was bought by Walter Paepcke, who like Wheeler came to visit Aspen and invested heavily in its development...
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  • International Airport (DEN) in Denver. Aspen Airways was founded in 1952 by Walter Paepcke, as the flight department of the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies...
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  • relocated. Hired by industrialist and visionary Walter Paepcke, Bayer moved to Aspen, Colorado as Paepcke promoted skiing as a popular sport. Bayer's architectural...
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    The Goethe Bicentennial Convocation and Music Festival, organized by Walter Paepcke, was held in Aspen in 1949 in an amphitheater tent designed by Eero...
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  • Due to financial problems the school briefly closed in 1938. However, Walter Paepcke, Chairman of the Container Corporation of America and an early champion...
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  • brand vbeauté Klaus Obermeyer (born 1919), founder of Sport Obermeyer Walter Paepcke (1896–1960), industrialist, founder of the Aspen Institute, Aspen Skiing...
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    Massachusetts. Leonard Hamilton Woods, who married Anina Paepcke, the daughter of Walter Paepcke and Elizabeth Nitze (the sister of Paul Nitze) of Chicago...
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    skiing. In 1946, the newly formed Aspen Skiing Company, founded by Walter Paepcke, built the first chairlift to the top of the mountain and opened the...
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    been involved in developing the ski resort before the war. In 1946 Walter Paepcke, then president of the Container Corporation of America, visited the...
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  • 1964 Saul Steinberg, 1963 William Sandberg, 1962 Paul A. Bennett, 1961 Walter Paepcke, 1960 May Massee, 1959 Ben Shahn, 1958 Dr. M. F. Agha, 1957 Ray Nash...
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    Design Council, Deutscher Werkbund, Olivetti, IBM, Peter Behrens, and Walter Paepcke. The work of designers in the 1960s was influenced by industry, as the...
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    it was owned by Walter Paepcke, the Chicago businessman who led Aspen's mid-20th-century renaissance as a ski resort town. While Paepcke owned the house...
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    Massachusetts. Leonard Hamilton Woods, who married Anina Paepcke, the daughter of Walter Paepcke and Elizabeth Nitze (the sister of Paul Nitze) of Chicago...
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