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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Aachen 1886 – 1969 Chicago

Project „Wabe, Friedrichstrasse“. Design for a skyscraper at the Friedrichstraße, 1921. Perspective from the North, first version / Photo: Curt Rehbein, 1922.

Vintage. Gelatin silver contact print of a photomontage. 23,4 × 17,3 cm (24,2 × 17,9 cm) (9 ¼ × 6 ¾ in. (9 ½ × 7 in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Project „Wabe, Friedrichstrasse“. Design for a skyscraper at the Friedrichstraße, 1921. Perspective from the North, first version / Photo: Curt Rehbein, 1922.

Estimate:

EUR 10,000

 

- 20,000

USD 11,200

 

- 22,400

Sold for:

31,875 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2016

Modern and Contemporary Photographs, Wednesday, 30.11.2016

Information

Vintage. Gelatin silver contact print of a photomontage. 23,4 × 17,3 cm (24,2 × 17,9 cm) (9 ¼ × 6 ¾ in. (9 ½ × 7 in.)). In the lower margin of the image imprint: „BLICK VON DER OBEREN FRIEDRICHSTRASSE AUSFÜHRUNG ... [illegible] GLAS". 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. 210 (there titled: Wabe am Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse. Projekt) / Mies in Berlin, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Die Berliner Jahre 1907–1938, ed. Terence Riley and Barry Bergdoll, Munich and others 2002, p. 326 (there: Entwurf für das Hochhaus an der Friedrichstraße. 1921. Perspektive von Norden, erste Fassung)

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