Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts

Architecture
Barcelona Pavilion
Los 4106

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Photographer: Sasha Stone (1895-1940). Front side of the German Pavilion at the World's Fair in Barcelona, designed by Mies van der Rohe. 1929. Vintage gelatin silver print. 15,5 x 22,8 cm. Berliner Bild Bericht agency stamp on the verso, mounted along upper edge to black paper.
Vitra Design Museum (ed.). Mies van der Rohe. Möbel und Bauten in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno (exhibition catalogue). Weil am Rhein 1998. – A rare documentation of the extremely modern, streamlined design by Mies van der Rohe of the German Pavilion for the World's Fair in Barcelona 1929. The structure was van der Rohe's first major work which was unfortunately torn down after the exhibition. – Some light surface rubbing, a few indentation marks, some handling marks, otherwise in good condition.

Architecture, German
The architects Eckart Muthesius, Ludwig Ruff, Emil Fahrenkamp, Mies van der Rohe and Sep Ruf in Brussels
Los 4107

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Photographer unknown. The architects Eckart Muthesius, Ludwig Ruff, Emil Fahrenkamp, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Sep Ruf in Brussels. Circa 1934. 4 vintage gelatin silver prints on carte postale. Each circa 9 x 14 cm.
Reto Niggl. Eckart Muthesius. The Maharaja's Palace in Indore. Architecture and Interior 1930, Stuttgart 1996, ill. p. 152. – The images show the architects Eckart Muthesius, Ludwig Ruff, Emil Fahrenkamp, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Sep Ruf who took part in a competition for designing the German Pavilion at the Brussels International Exposition in 1935. Two images show them at a cafe in Brussels and the other two viewing the construction site. Hitler did not approve any of the designs as they did not satisfy his wish for grand monumentality to represent the National Socialist worldview. As a result Germany did not participate in the Fair. – Corners slightly bumped, two with slight oxidation mirroring, otherwise in good condition. – Two enlargement prints from the same series in cafe. Circa 1934/printed 1950s. 2 gelatin silver prints. 13 x 18 cm. 1 annotated in red ink and pencil on the verso. - Some handling creases, corners bumped with creases.
Provenienz: Eckart Muthesius Archive

Baur, Max
Stadtschloß Potsdam with Lange Brücke
Los 4112 [*]

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Stadtschloß Potsdam with Lange Brücke; Stadtschloß Potsdam. 1945/1930s. 2 vintage large-format gelatin silver prints on doubleweight paper. Each circa 29,8 x 39,9 cm. Each with photographer's/copyright stamp and annotated in ink on the verso.
Jutta Götzmann/Judith Granzow/Anja Tack (eds.). Potsdam, ein Paradies für meine Kamera. Max Baur. Fotografie. Berlin 2018.Corners minimally bumped, edges slightly curled, otherwise fine tonal prints in very good condition.

Baur, Max
Maguerite and grass
Los 4113

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Maguerite and grass. 1930s. Vintage gelatin silver print on doubleweight ivory paper. 29,8 x 21,8 cm. Photographer's stamp on the verso.
Light brown spot in upper right, otherwise a fine warm-toned print in very good condition.

Bellon, Denise
Selected images: "Les plus belles rue de Paris"
Los 4114

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Selected images: "Les plus belles rue de Paris". 1938/printed 2006. 6 gelatin silver prints. Each circa 20 x 18,5 cm (30,2 x 23,7 cm). Each with printed Griffelkunst edition text on the verso, in original half-canvas folder with illustrated text brochure.
In excellent condition.

Berlin
Album with views of postwar Berlin
Los 4115

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372€ (US$ 400)

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Album with views of postwar Berlin. 1947-49. 87 vintage contact gelatin silver prints. Each 5,5 x 8,5 cm. Mounted in photo corners to album pages, bound in contemporary carved wooden album with chord binding.
The album contains many images of damaged monuments and buildings after World War II in Berlin from 1947 up to the first elections in 1949. – Photos in very good condition.

Berlin
Postwar Berlin
Los 4116 [*]

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Photographer: Usa Borchert. Selected views of postwar Berlin. Circa 1949. 10 vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver prints on Agfa-Brovira paper. Each circa 24 x 18 cm. 7 with photographer's stamp and annotated in pencil on the verso.
The images show postwar Berlin with its many ruins, Trümmerfrauen and includes two self-portraits. Usa Borchert was the wife of Eric Borchert, the star photographer at the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung. He published the standard book on war photography under the National Socialists titled "Entscheidende Stunden. Mit der Kamera am Feind" in 1941, but he fell shortly later in North Africa in Tobruk in 1942. – Some corners bumped, some with creases, one with tear, otherwise in good to very good condition.

Berlin
Dramatic scenes during Oct. 25-28, 1961
Los 4117

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Photographer unknown. Dramatic events during Oct. 25-28,1961, Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin. 13 vintage gelatin silver prints. Each circa 18 x 24 cm.
These images show various scenes around Checkpoint Charlie during and after the dramatic events between Oct. 25-28, 1961 when American and Russian tanks threatened each other. The photographs come from an East Berlin archive of former GDR border troops and were taken from the East side. – Curled in edges, some with light handling marks, otherwise in good condition.

Bezalel School of Arts & Crafts Jerusalem
Images of the Bezalel School, Jerusalem
Los 4118

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Photographer unknown. Images of the Bezalel School of Arts & Crafts, Jerusalem. 1920s. 4 vintage gelatin silver prints. 12 x 17 cm. Each annotated in pencil on the verso.
A small group of very rare images of the early times of the Bezalel School founded by Boris Schatz (1866-1932) in 1906. One image shows the Boris Schatz Gallery with many of his works, which he donated to the school. Other images show the drawing room and other studios with students, and the sculptural studio with the teacher Boris Schatz and his students. – Slight oxidation mirroring in edges, otherwise in good condition.

Blossfeldt, Karl
Pflanzenformen (Plant studies)
Los 4119

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Pflanzenformen (Plant studies). 1930s/printed 2010 from the original negatives. 6 gelatin silver prints. Each circa 24,8 x 18,8 cm (30,5 x 24 cm). Each with Griffelkunst edition text printed on the verso, in original half-canvas portfolio with text brochure.
One print with minor handling mark in edge, otherwise in excellent condition.