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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Aachen 1886 – 1969 Chicago

Glass Skyscraper, model with staffage by the sculptor Oswald Herzog. Unrealized project from 1922 / photo: Curt Rehbein, 1922.

Vintage. Gelatin silver contact print. 23,4 × 17,4 cm (24,2 × 17,9 cm) (9 ¼ × 6 ⅞ in. (9 ½ × 7 in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Glass Skyscraper, model with staffage by the sculptor Oswald Herzog. Unrealized project from 1922 / photo: Curt Rehbein, 1922.

Estimate:

EUR 15,000

 

- 25,000

USD 16,800

 

- 28,000

Sold for:

35,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2016

Modern and Contemporary Photographs, Wednesday, 30.11.2016

Information

Vintage. Gelatin silver contact print. 23,4 × 17,4 cm (24,2 × 17,9 cm) (9 ¼ × 6 ⅞ in. (9 ½ × 7 in.)). On the reverse the studio stamp: „ATELIER MIES VAN DER ROHE BERLIN W. 35, AM KARLSBAD 24." as well as numbered in red crayon by an unknown hand. With slight oxidation mottlings in the margins.

Private collection, France

Franz Schulze, Mies van der Rohe, Leben und Werk, Berlin 1986, p. 108 (there titled: Glashochhaus. Projekt) / Mies und das Neue Wohnen, Räume, Möbel, Fotografie, ed. Helmut Reuter and Birgit Schulte, Ostfildern 2008, p. 15, ill. 11 (there titled: Glashochhaus)

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