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Hans Poelzig

1869 – Berlin – 1936

Ceiling light – presumably for the administrative buildings of I.G. Farben, Frankfurt am Main. Circa 1930

Copper profile, brass coated; glass, etched and ground; plexiglass, corrugated; small brass tubes; wood, fluorescent tubes. 120 (lightbox: 13 cm) × 134,5 × 55 cm (47 ¼ (lightbox: 5 ⅛ in.) × 53 × 21 ⅝ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Hans Poelzig. Ceiling light – presumably for the administrative buildings of I.G. Farben, Frankfurt am Main. Circa 1930.

Estimate:

EUR 6,000

 

- 8,000

USD 6,720

 

- 8,960

Sold for:

8,750 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2016

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 01.12.2016

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Copper profile, brass coated; glass, etched and ground; plexiglass, corrugated; small brass tubes; wood, fluorescent tubes. 120 (lightbox: 13 cm) × 134,5 × 55 cm (47 ¼ (lightbox: 5 ⅛ in.) × 53 × 21 ⅝ in.).

Comparable object: Büro Hans Poelzig: construction drawings for a lighting element, I. G. Farben, Frankfurt am Main. Administrative building, middle hall. Plans, 1931, Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität Berlin, inv. no. 4175.

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