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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, final version / Photo: Curt Rehbein, 1922.

Vintage. Gelatin silver contact print of a charcoal- and pencil drawing. 23,2 × 17,4 cm (23,8 × 17,7 cm) (9 ⅛ × 6 ⅞ in. (9 ⅜ × 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, final version / Photo: Curt Rehbein, 1922.

Estimate:

EUR 10,000

 

- 20,000

USD 11,200

 

- 22,400

Sold for:

50,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2016

Modern and Contemporary Photographs, Wednesday, 30.11.2016

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Vintage. Gelatin silver contact print of a charcoal- and pencil drawing. 23,2 × 17,4 cm (23,8 × 17,7 cm) (9 ⅛ × 6 ⅞ in. (9 ⅜ × 7 in.)). Layout markings in pencil at corners and edges. On the reverse the studio stamp: „ATELIER MIES VAN DER ROHE BERLIN W. 35, AM KARLSBAD 24". Inscribed, numbered and layout markings in pencil, red and blue crayon by various hands. With slight oxidation mottlings in the margins.

Private collection, France

Franz Schulze, Mies van der Rohe, Leben und Werk, Berlin 1986, p. 104 (there titled: Bürogebäude an der Friedrichstraße, Berlin. Erstes Projekt. 1921) / Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Hochhaus am Bahnhof Friedrichstraße, Dokumentation des Mies-van-der-Rohe-Symposiums in der Neuen Nationalgalerie, Berlin, ed. Fritz Neumeyer, Tübingen/Berlin 1993, Frontispitz and p. 10 (there titled: Hochhaus am Bahnhof Friedrichstraße, Berlin 1921/22. Ansicht von der Weidendammer Brücke aus)

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