Group portrait of UNESCO architects: Eero Saarinen, Pier Luigi Nervi, Ernesto N. Rogers, Walter Gropius, Bernard Henri Zehrfuss, Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer, and Sven Markelius, Paris [?]

People:

Unknown (photographer)
Le Corbusier (sitter)
Pier Luigi Nervi (sitter)
Marcel Breuer (sitter)
Bernard Henri Zehrfuss (sitter)
Eero Saarinen (sitter)
Ernesto N. Rogers (sitter)
Walter Gropius (sitter)
Sven Markelius (sitter)

Title:

Group portrait of UNESCO architects: Eero Saarinen, Pier Luigi Nervi, Ernesto N. Rogers, Walter Gropius, Bernard Henri Zehrfuss, Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer, and Sven Markelius, Paris [?]

Date:

1952

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 16.9 x 17.0 cm sheet: 24.0 x 18.2 cm

Reference number:

PH1985:0559

Point of View:

interior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- This photograph is inscribed on the verso, .l.r. with a scribble in graphite.

Inscription:

inscribed and dated - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print, verso, u.l. to u.r.: ""Panel of Five" 1952 Gropius chairman / [with title] - Breuer / Zerfuss [sic] / Nervi"; and c.l.: "US $ 400 =" labelled and imprinted - in black typeface, on a paper label affixed to the print, verso, l.l. to l.r.: "From left to right: / Messrs. Eero Saarinen (U.S.A.), Pier Luigi Nervi (Italy) / Ernesto Rogers (Italy), Walter Gropius (U.S.A.), Bernard Zehrfuss, standing / (France), Le Corbusier (France), Marcel Breuer, standing, (U.S.A.) / Sven Markelius (Sweden)"

Location:

Paris France

Subject:

architecture
portrait

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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