Lot 1703
Berlin. 2 Werke über Architektur. 2 Bde.
Estimate
€ 200
Starting Price
€ 140
Lot:
1703
Category:
Illustrated Books, portfolios and art literature until 1945
Berlin. 2 works on architecture
1) Hajos, E. M. and L. Zahn: Berliner Architektur der Nachkriegszeit. With an introduction by E. Redslob. Berlin: Albertus-Verlag 1928. 29.4 x 22.2 cm. With numerous black-and-white illustrations in the text and on plates. XIII pp., 1 unnumbered p., 1 leaf, 131 pp. Original binding. (Spine embossing worn. Some foxing at the beginning and end. Musty smell.) – New Architecture of the Major Cities, edited by Leopold Zahn. - Documentation of architectural developments in Berlin after the First World War. The introductory remarks by Edwin Redslob, then Reich Art Commissioner, contextualise the featured buildings within the history of culture and art. An important record of Berlin’s architectural history during the Weimar Republic and of modernist architecture of the 1920s.
2) German Steel Construction Association (ed.): Berliner Stahl-Hochbauten. Berlin: Self-published by the German Steel Construction Association, 1936. 29.7 x 21 cm. With 66 full-page black-and-white illustrations. 134 pp., 2 leaves. Original binding. (Minimally rubbed. The leaves are partly slightly wavy.) - Documentation of 66 outstanding Berlin steel structures from the interwar period, including details of year of construction, architect, site management, structural design, steel weight and dimensions. The book features administrative and industrial buildings, railway stations, exhibition halls, sports venues, power stations and striking individual structures such as the Europahaus, the Radio Tower, the Deutschlandhalle, Tempelhof Airport, KaDeWe and the Klingenberg Power Station.
1) Hajos, E. M. and L. Zahn: Berliner Architektur der Nachkriegszeit. With an introduction by E. Redslob. Berlin: Albertus-Verlag 1928. 29.4 x 22.2 cm. With numerous black-and-white illustrations in the text and on plates. XIII pp., 1 unnumbered p., 1 leaf, 131 pp. Original binding. (Spine embossing worn. Some foxing at the beginning and end. Musty smell.) – New Architecture of the Major Cities, edited by Leopold Zahn. - Documentation of architectural developments in Berlin after the First World War. The introductory remarks by Edwin Redslob, then Reich Art Commissioner, contextualise the featured buildings within the history of culture and art. An important record of Berlin’s architectural history during the Weimar Republic and of modernist architecture of the 1920s.
2) German Steel Construction Association (ed.): Berliner Stahl-Hochbauten. Berlin: Self-published by the German Steel Construction Association, 1936. 29.7 x 21 cm. With 66 full-page black-and-white illustrations. 134 pp., 2 leaves. Original binding. (Minimally rubbed. The leaves are partly slightly wavy.) - Documentation of 66 outstanding Berlin steel structures from the interwar period, including details of year of construction, architect, site management, structural design, steel weight and dimensions. The book features administrative and industrial buildings, railway stations, exhibition halls, sports venues, power stations and striking individual structures such as the Europahaus, the Radio Tower, the Deutschlandhalle, Tempelhof Airport, KaDeWe and the Klingenberg Power Station.