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Hermann Finsterlin
1919-1923
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Series documents the contribution of artist Hermann Finsterlin to the correspondence circle of Die gläserne Kette. Finsterlin wrote under the pseudonym Prometh (sometime appears as "Prometheus").
Born in Munich in 1897, Finsterlin studied at Munich University in chemistry, then in physics and medicine, and later in philosophy. He studied painting at the Kunstakademie in Munich in 1917 and 1918 and exhibited his work at the Ausstlelling für unbekannte Architekten. He published in "Frühlich", a magazine edited by Bruno Taut in which works by some members of Die gläserne Kette were featured. He painted frescoes in Tripoli, Majorca, and Tenerife. During the Nazi period, Finsterlin was commissionned to paint frescoes and portraits for the regime, but most of his work was destroyed during the war. He died in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1973. (Source: Ian Boyd Whyte, Bruno Taut and the Architecture of Activism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982)
The series comprises part of the correspondence of Hermann Finsterlin to the Die gläserne Kette circle, including a postcard. The series also includes some drawings by Finsterlin.
The original order of these materials was not discernable when they arrived at CCA.
Part of a miscellaneous group of visual and textual documents collected by Oswald Mathias Ungers, apparently to represent the work of artists/architects in Die gläserne Kette. This group includes theoretical texts and illustrations from Die gläserne Kette, as well as other correspondence. Most of the works are mimeographs.
1 file(s)
sheet (smallest [some irreg.]): 10,6 x 14,8 cm sheet (largest [some irreg.]): 28,5 x 22,6 cm
All of the sheets have old folds, and some have folded corners, stains, and small tears along the edges. Five of the reproductions of letters are one page in length. The sixth, DR1988:0022:006:001-003, has three pages which are attached by a paper clip, and the seventh DR1988:0022:010:001-002, is two pages in length.
signed - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, on the originals or the mimeograph copies, in various locations: "Prometh." or "Prometheus" inscribed - on DR1988:0022:001, by the draughtsman, on the original, c.: "das Haus der 8 Gesellen. / [...]" inscribed - on DR1988:0022:003, by the draughtsman, on the original, l.c.: with text in German inscribed - on DR1988:0022:004, by the draughtsman, on the original, l.c.: with text in German
Germany
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
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