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118 - Deutscher Werkbund—Three photographs/postcards of the Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart. Three photostats. 1927. 8.2 × 11.5 cm (9 × 14 cm).
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Deutscher Werkbund—Three photographs/postcards of the Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart. Three photostats. 1927. 8.2 × 11.5 cm (9 × 14 cm). Auction start time: approx. 1:08 p.m. (Schedule subject to change) I. Exterior view of House 14 (Le Corbusier / Pierre Jeanneret). Not featured in *Bau und Wohnung*. - II. Interior view (bedroom) of House 14 (Le Corbusier / Pierre Jeanneret). Illustration in *Bau und Wohnung* on page 36. - III. View of House 25 (Adolf Rading). Illustration in *Bau und Wohnung* on page 106. - All three feature a printed inscription on the reverse for use as a postcard, bearing the title “Werkbund Exhibition ‘Die Wohnung’ Stuttgart 1927” and the source citation for *Bau und Wohnung*, as well as the photographer’s credit: Dr. Lossen & Co., Feuerbach. - In very good condition. - Card III, as a postcard, bears a pencil inscription reading “We won’t be coming home on Monday—there’s a lot to see, very scattered, but not much that’s very good,” and is addressed to Mme. [Hermana] Morach-Sjövale (1899–1974, Swiss sculptor and textile designer, wife of the Swiss painter Otto Morach). Since 1919, he had held a part-time teaching position at the Zurich School of Applied Arts together with Sophie Taeuber-Arp; in 1928, he became a full-time teacher.
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Auction 34: Art & Books - Special Catalog: 20th-Century Artist's Books / Renker Collection, Part 2Auction house
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