Walter Paepcke

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Walter Paepcke (1896–1960) was a U.S. industrialist and philanthropist prominent in the middle 20th century.

A longtime executive of the Chicago-based Container Corporation of the America, Paepcke is best noted for his founding of the Aspen Institute and the Aspen Skiing Company in the early 1950s, both of which helped transform the town of Aspen, Colorado into an international resort destination and popularize the sport of skiing in the United States. Paepcke hired Bauhaus designer Herbert Bayer and brought him to Aspen to promote the project through poster design and other design work; Paepcke was also the patron of fellow Bauhaus figure László Moholy-Nagy by financing the re-birth of the American New Bauhaus in Chicago in 1939. His wife, Elizabeth "Pussy" Paepcke, was the sister of American diplomatic figure Paul Nitze.

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