Erich and Luise Mendelsohn papers, 1894-1992.

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

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Architect, designer; Illinois, Wisconsin and Arizona. From the description of Frank Lloyd Wright textile design studies, [ca. 1955]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86122971 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an American Architect internationally recognized for his distinctive Prairie Style houses, innovative building design, Taliesin school and fellowships, and philosophy of "organic architecture." From the guide to the Frank Lloyd Wright Miscel...

Hunter, Richard S. (Richard Sewall), 1909-

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Epithet: Dr British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000622.0x00012b ...

Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1902-1983

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German-born art and architectural historian, editor and professor, Nikolaus Pevsner was a scholar of European architecture, 19th and 20th century design, Italian Baroque painting and German sculpture. He worked with the Dresden Gallery from 1924 to 1928 and taught at Göttingen before emigrating to England in 1933. He subsequently taught at Birkbeck College and the Courtauld Institute, and lectured as Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge and Oxford. He was a member of the editorial board of the A...

Mendelsohn, Luise, 1894-1980

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Biographical/Historical Note 1887: Erich Mendelsohn is born on March 21st in the East Prussian town of Allenstein (now Olsztyn, Poland). 1907-1909: Begins his studies in national economics at the University of Munich; in 1909 transfers to the Technical University in Berlin to begin his study of architecture, which he continues in Munich. 1910: Meets his future wife, Luise (Luise) Maas (born 1894), a young cellist. ...

Hahn, Marianne

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Oud, J.J.P. (Jacobus Johannes Pieter), 1890-1963

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Architect. From the description of The Influence of Frank Lloyd Wright on the Architecture of Europe, ca. 1922. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82839605 Dutch architect. From the description of J.J.P. Oud papers, 1907-1963, n.d. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78114358 From the description of Weissenhofsiedlung, 1927. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84394366 From the description of Maquette de maison de campagne [U...

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965

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Architect. Le Corbusier, born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, adopted pseudonym Le Corbusier, 1920. Studied engraving at School of Applied Arts, La Chaux de Fonds, 1900-1905. Employed in office of architect Josef Hoffmann, Vienna, in 1907; August Perret, Paris, and with Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe, Berlin, in 1910. Founder-Director, L'Atelier d'Art Réunis, La Chaux de Fonds, 1909-1914, and Instructor, l'Eplattenier's Nouvelle Section de l'Ecole d'Art, La Chaux de Fonds, 1911-1914; also work...

Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970

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Richard Josef Neutra was born in 1892 in Vienna; immigrated to US, 1923; Frank Lloyd Wright invited him to Taliesin during the fall of 1924; Neutra moved to Los Angeles, CA, 1925; most productive years were during 1930s and 1940s; spent most of his last decade in partnership with his son, Dion; published several books, including Wie baut Amerika? (1927) and Survival through design (1954); died in 1970. From the description of Papers, 1925-1970. (University of California, Los Angeles)...

Wijdeveld, H. Th., 1885-1987

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Dutch architect and historian. From the description of Frank Lloyd Wright Scrapbook, 1931. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80965858 Dutch designer and architectural historian. From the description of Proposals and meditations, 1927-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82911820 Dutch architect, died 1987. From the description of H. Th. Wijdeveld graphic and architectural designs, 1919-1979. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat ...

Poelzig, Hans, 1869-1936

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German architect. From the description of Architectural drawings and sketchbooks, ca. 1899-1936. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80549579 German architect and professor. From the description of Hans Poelzig papers, ca. 1907-1936. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81614132 ...

Lissitzky, El, 1890-1941

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Russian architect and designer, El Lissitzky became an important representative of the Russian avant-garde to the West through friendships with artists such as Lázló Moholy-Nagy and Kurt Schwitters. Lissitzky worked on an array of typographical, theater, furniture and exhibition designs, and advocated a synthesis of architecture, painting and sculpture. From the description of El Lissitzky letters and photographs, 1911-1941. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 83441007 ...

Eckardt, Wolf von, 1918-

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Posener, Julius

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Beyer, Oskar, 1882-

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Velde, Henry van de, 1863-1957

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Belgian architect. From the description of Letter : to Elsa Asenijeff, Weimar, 1905 Jan. 22. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 83324407 ...

Trocmé family.

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Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969

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Architect, educator. Studied architecture at the Universities of Charlottenburg-Berlin and Munich, Germany from 1903 to 1907. Founded and directed the Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar in 1919, which Gropius moved to Dessau in 1925 and renamed "Bauhaus Dessau". Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 1937 and Chairman of the Department of Architecture from 1938 to 1952. Formed the Architects' Collaborative in Cambridge in 1946. For further information see James ...

Maas, Rosa, 1858-1941

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Ponti, Gio, 1891-1979

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Mendelsohn, Esther.

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Mendelsohn, Erich, 1887-1953

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German architect. From the description of Design, ca. 1924. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81952229 Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from architect Eric Mendelsohn and his wife, Louise Mendelsohn. All letterheads and signatures by Mendelsohn in this file spell his first name as "Eric," not "Erich." From the description of Letters to Lewis Mumford, 1941-1975, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122526818 German a...

Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973

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Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon...

Zevi, Bruno, 1918-2000

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D. January 9, 2000. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78575045 ...

Roggero, Mario Federico

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Wagner, Otto, 1841-1918

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Austrian architect. From the description of Otto Wagner Correspondence, 1885-1917. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84548434 Biographical/Historical Note Otto Wagner, known as the father of Vienna architects, was an architect, writer and teacher, whose followers included Josef Hoffman and J. M. Olbrich. Wagner studied architecture at the Vienna Polytechnic School (1857-1859) and the Academy of Fine Arts in ...

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969

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German born architect. From the description of Manuscript fragment (n.d.) and letter, 1962 Nov.30. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 82217577 Architect. From the description of Reminiscences of Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe : oral history, 1961. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122631918 Architect. Born in Aachen, Germany (1886). From the description of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe collection, 1929-1969....

Meier, Günter.

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Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990

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American writer. From the description of Correspondence with Alfred S. Dashiell, 1931-1940. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 51846130 Carl Zigrosser and Lewis Mumford were life-long friends with shared interests in the arts, society and politics. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1925-1971, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155902319 Sir Patrick Geddes was a Scottish biologist, sociologi...

Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944

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Russian-born painter and writer on art. From the description of Mitgliedskarte, ca. 1908, for Neue Künstlervereinigung München. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80564007 The Russian-born artist, Wassily Kandinsky [Vasilii Vasil'evich Kandinskiĭ] is considered one of the creators of abstract painting. He taught at the Bauhaus between 1922 and 1933. From the description of Wassily Kandinsky papers, 1911-1940 (bulk 1921-1937). (Getty Research Insti...

Feininger, Lyonel, 1871-1956

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Feininger was an American-born artist who went to Germany in 1887 and returned to the U.S. in 1936. From the description of Papers, 1883-1960. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122520943 From the description of Drawings for Peter Christen Asbjørnsen's Norvegische Volksmärchen, 1908. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 84317440 From the description of Lyonel Feininger photographs, 1896-1942. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612196407 ...

Worringer, Wilhelm, 1881-1965

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Whittick, Arnold, 1898-1986

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