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Hannes Meyer

Basel 1889 – 1954 Lugano

„co-op.construction. 1926/5“. 1926

Vintage or Early Gelatin silver contact print. 10,5 x 8 cm (10,8 x 8,3 cm) (4 ⅛ x 3 ⅛ in. (4 ¼ x 3 ¼ in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Hannes Meyer. „co-op.construction. 1926/5“. 1926.

Estimate:

EUR 1,500

 

- 2,000

USD 2,000

 

- 2,670

Sold for:

9,150 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 193-198

Photography, Wednesday, 30.05.2012

Information

Vintage or Early Gelatin silver contact print. 10,5 x 8 cm (10,8 x 8,3 cm) (4 ⅛ x 3 ⅛ in. (4 ¼ x 3 ¼ in.)). With the red photographer's stamp on the reverse: „hannes meyer“, as well as dated and titled by Léna Meyer-Bergner in blue ballpoint pen. With light oxidation mottlings.

Léna Meyer-Bergner (1906–1981) was Hannes Meyers' second wife.

Hannes Meyer, 1889-1954, Architekt, Urbanist, Lehrer, ed. by the Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin and Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt/Main, Berlin 1989, p. 66, ill. 12
Photographie Bauhaus 1919-1933, ed. for the Bauhaus-Archiv by Jeannine Fiedler, Berlin 1990, p. 260, ill. 410 (variation)
Martin Kieren, Hannes Meyer, Dokumente zur Frühzeit, Architektur- und Gestaltungsversuche 1919–1927, Heiden 1990, S. 125 (variation)

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