Gropius (Walter). The New Architecture and the Bauhaus
Gropius (Walter). The New Architecture and the Bauhaus, translated from the German by P. Morton Shand, with an introduction by Frank Pick, 1st English edition, London: Faber & Faber, 1935, monochrome illustrations after photographs, original white cloth, lettered in red, lightly rubbed and pale discolouration to spine and edges, in price-clipped dustwrapper (designed by L. Moholy-Nagy), minor fraying and a few marks to extreme edges, several light annotations in pencil to margins [probably in the hand of Rex Martienssen], 8vo
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Author's signed presentation copy, inscribed in ink to front endpaper 'Fur die Architektur-Fakultat der University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Walter Gropius London, April 1936'.
Provenance: Rex Martienssen (1905-1942), architect Heather Martienssen (1915-1979).
The South African pioneer of International Modernism Rex Marteinssen (1905-1942) was the principal figure in the small modernist Transvaal Group, which included W. G. McIntosh and Norman Hanson. Martienssen published an article on "The International Tendency in Contemporary Architecture" in the South African Architectural Record in December 1931. In April 1936 Gropius wrote in response to a letter, most likely written by Martienssen, thanking him for some journals sent, sending his good wishes, as well as permission to reprint The New Architecture and the Bauhaus.
See Gilbert Herbert, Marteinssen, and the International Style: the modern movement in South Africa (A. A. Balkema, Cape Town, 1975) for further information.
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Gropius (Walter). The New Architecture and the Bauhaus, translated from the German by P. Morton Shand, with an introduction by Frank Pick, 1st English edition, London: Faber & Faber, 1935, monochrome illustrations after photographs, original white cloth, lettered in red, lightly rubbed and pale discolouration to spine and edges, in price-clipped dustwrapper (designed by L. Moholy-Nagy), minor fraying and a few marks to extreme edges, several light annotations in pencil to margins [probably in the hand of Rex Martienssen], 8vo
(Qty: 1)
Author's signed presentation copy, inscribed in ink to front endpaper 'Fur die Architektur-Fakultat der University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Walter Gropius London, April 1936'.
Provenance: Rex Martienssen (1905-1942), architect Heather Martienssen (1915-1979).
The South African pioneer of International Modernism Rex Marteinssen (1905-1942) was the principal figure in the small modernist Transvaal Group, which included W. G. McIntosh and Norman Hanson. Martienssen published an article on "The International Tendency in Contemporary Architecture" in the South African Architectural Record in December 1931. In April 1936 Gropius wrote in response to a letter, most likely written by Martienssen, thanking him for some journals sent, sending his good wishes, as well as permission to reprint The New Architecture and the Bauhaus.
See Gilbert Herbert, Marteinssen, and the International Style: the modern movement in South Africa (A. A. Balkema, Cape Town, 1975) for further information.
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