• Paul Goesch (draughtsman)

Visionary design for the west façade of a church

circa 1920-1921

- Design for a multi-coloured building having two fanciful towers on either side of the main structure. The building resembles a church in the tripartite division of its façade into a central section flanked by the two towers.

• theoretical drawing
• illustration

Watercolour and gouache over pen and black ink

sheet: 20.9 x 16.4 cm

DR1988:0071

• finished drawing

• sketch elevation (drawing)

- There is an old fold running vertically from the u.r. to l.r..

signed - by the draughtsman, in graphite, l.l.: "G" inscribed - the draughtsman, in graphite, verso, u.l.: "Goesch Kirchenfassade" numbered and inscribed - by a contemporary unknown hand in graphite, verso, u.r.: "A40 [circled] / 17 x 21" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, verso, u.l.: "23 [crossed out] / 200 M [Deutsche Mark]"; and l.l.: "I.3" numbered - by an unknown hand, in blue pencil, verso, l.l.: "9234"

• architecture

• church
• fantastic architecture
• Expressionism