Lot
1345
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
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
Lot
411
German Building Exhibition, Berlin: Exhibition room 45 A. Wertheim. Exhibition architect: Lilly Reich. 1931
Estimate:
EUR 1,200
- 1,800
Sold for:
EUR 3,000
Lot
1320
Deutscher Pavillon, Weltausstellung Barcelona, Architekt: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Ansicht des Nebeneingangs mit Blick auf den Büroanbau. 1929
Estimate:
EUR 1,800
- 2,200
Sold for:
EUR 2,142
Lot
1321
Deutscher Pavillon, Weltausstellung Barcelona, Architekt: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Blick von der beleuchtbaren Glaswand in den Innenraum. 1929
Estimate:
EUR 1,800
- 2,200
Sold for:
EUR 5,355
Lot
1343
BARCELONA PAVILLON, FRONTSEITE VON NORDOST GESEHEN. 1929
Estimate:
EUR 2,000
- 2,500
Sold for:
EUR 1,904
Lot
1346
Barcelona Pavillon, Blick über das grosse Wasserbecken. 1929
Estimate:
EUR 2,000
- 2,500
Sold for:
EUR 1,904
Lot
1349
Barcelona Pavillon, Blick von der beleuchtbaren Glaswand in den Innenraum. 1929
Estimate:
EUR 2,000
- 2,500
Sold for:
EUR 1,904
Lot
1354
Umgestaltung der Neuen Wache, Berlin, Zeichnung Sergius Rügenberg nach Entwurf von Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. 1930
Estimate:
EUR 300
- 500
Sold for:
EUR 357
Lot
2004
Redesign of the „Neue Wache", Berlin. Photo of a drawing by Sergius Rügenberg after a design by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. 1930
Estimate:
EUR 300
- 500
Sold for:
EUR 375