German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was photographed by Karsh on this day, July 1, in 1962. In the 1930s, Mies (1886-1969) was the last director of the Bauhaus, a ground-breaking school of modernist art, design and architecture. After Nazism’s rise to power, due to its strong opposition to modernism, he emigrated to the United States.