American industrialist and philanthropist (1896–1960)
Walter Paepcke
Born
June 29, 1896
Died
April 13, 1960
Education
Latin School of Chicago
Occupation(s)
Businessman, philanthropist
Spouse
Elizabeth Paepcke
Relatives
Paul Nitze (brother-in-law)
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 of the Chicago-based Container Corporation of 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.
WalterPaepcke (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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and racing champion, WalterPaepcke, a Chicago industrialist, Judge William E. Doyle, James J. Johnston, and H. F. Klock. Paepcke also founded cultural...
Books of the Western World. University trustee and Chicago businessman WalterPaepcke was inspired by the seminar to found the Aspen Institute. In 1937, when...
of the Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation. Under the leadership of WalterPaepcke, CCA was a patron of graphic arts and design. The company amassed a...
resort. Aspen hosted the FIS World Championships in 1950. Paepcke with her husband Walter also played an important role in bringing the Goethe Bicentennial...
Massachusetts. Leonard Hamilton Woods, who married Anina Paepcke, the daughter of WalterPaepcke and Elizabeth Nitze (the sister of Paul Nitze) of Chicago...
the United Arab Emirates." The institute was largely the creation of WalterPaepcke, a Chicago businessman who had become inspired by the Great Books program...
Bicentennial in 1949. The Aspen Institute was founded by WalterPaepcke in 1950 in Aspen, Colorado. Paepcke was a Chicago businessman and the founder of the Container...
Bauhaus school under the sponsorship of industrialist and philanthropist WalterPaepcke. This school became the Institute of Design, part of the Illinois Institute...
Scott Porter from 1993 until his death in 2004. Nitze's brother-in-law, WalterPaepcke, founded the Aspen Institute and Aspen Skiing Company. Nitze continued...
relocated. Hired by industrialist and visionary WalterPaepcke, Bayer moved to Aspen, Colorado as Paepcke promoted skiing as a popular sport. Bayer's architectural...
The Goethe Bicentennial Convocation and Music Festival, organized by WalterPaepcke, was held in Aspen in 1949 in an amphitheater tent designed by Eero...
Festival and School was founded in 1949 by Chicago businessman WalterPaepcke and Elizabeth Paepcke as a two-week bicentennial celebration of the 18th-century...
Due to financial problems the school briefly closed in 1938. However, WalterPaepcke, Chairman of the Container Corporation of America and an early champion...
Mendelsohn – television producer and writer Claes Oldenburg – sculptor WalterPaepcke - industrialist, philanthropist and founder of Aspen Skiing Company...
International Airport (DEN) in Denver. Aspen Airways was founded in 1952 by WalterPaepcke, as the flight department of the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies...
Design Council, Deutscher Werkbund, Olivetti, IBM, Peter Behrens, and WalterPaepcke. The work of designers in the 1960s was influenced by industry, as the...
1964 Saul Steinberg, 1963 William Sandberg, 1962 Paul A. Bennett, 1961 WalterPaepcke, 1960 May Massee, 1959 Ben Shahn, 1958 Dr. M. F. Agha, 1957 Ray Nash...