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Berlin Bild-Bericht

BARCELONA PAVILLON, BLICK VOM BÜROTRAKT ZUM PAVILLON. 1929

Vintage. Gelatin silver print. 16,3 x 22,1 cm (6 ⅜ x 8 ¾ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork:  Berlin Bild-Bericht. BARCELONA PAVILLON, BLICK VOM BÜROTRAKT ZUM PAVILLON. 1929.

Estimate:

EUR 2,000

 

- 2,500

USD 2,700

 

- 3,380

Sold for:

1,904 EUR (incl. premium)

auctions 164-167

Photography, Thursday, 04.06.2009

Information

Vintage. Gelatin silver print. 16,3 x 22,1 cm (6 ⅜ x 8 ¾ in.). On the reverse agency- resp. copyright stamp.

All the works of the convolute are from the bequest of Eduard Ludwig (1906-1960), an architect and former Bauhaus student, who worked as an assistant to Mies van der Rohe. Both men kept a life-long friendship. Ludwig had enrolled as a Bauhaus student in 1928. His teachers were Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Josef Albers, Walter Peterhans and Mies. After earning his degree in 1932, Ludwig’s first job was at the Bauhaus building department. After the closing of the school in September 1932, Ludwig worked at Mies’ office in Berlin and, since 1935, also at the studio of Lilly Reich. Today, documents from Ludwig's bequest are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Werkbundarchiv, Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, and Bauhaus Foundation in Dessau, among others.

Philip C. Johnson, Mies van der Rohe, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1947, p. 68
Wolf Tegethoff, Mies van der Rohe, Die Villen und Landhausprojekte, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld, Essen 1981, pl. 10.12
Josep Quelglas, Der gläserne Schrecken, Mies van der Rohes Pavillon in Barcelona, Basel e.a. 2001, p. 96
George Dodds, Building Desire: The Barcelona Pavilion, London 2005, pl. 7
Barcelona-Pavillon, Mies van der Rohe & Kolbe, Architektur & Skulptur, ed. by Ursel Berger and Thomas Pavel, Georg Kolbe-Museum, Berlin 2006, ill. 8, p. 62

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