Lot: 21


Postcard 'Bauhaus-Dessau'

after an architectural photograph by Arthur Köster, c. 1926


Cliché on light cardboard. 9.0 x 13.5 cm. Verso typographically inscribed: Information on the subject, the author of the photograph, the editeur and the series (printed). The 'Carte Postale' shows the Bauhaus Dessau in the shot of the architecture photographer Arthur Köster, published by the Parisian Editeur Nathan with the permission of Walter Gropius. It is the number 8 of the postcard series XIII.

Well preserved.

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Hammer Price: 400 €

145A - 100 Years of Bauhaus
25. June 2019 at 5:00 PM CET

Literature:

Provenance: Private collection Hamburg. Michael Stoneberg, Arthur Koster: Architectural Photography 1926-1933. The image of the 'new building', 2009 (passim).