The total theater model of the project designed by architect Walter Gropius for Erwin Piscator, Berlin, Germany 1927
name: label: Creator
content: Charles Forberg Associates
label: Names
content: Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969
label: Names
content: Piscator, Erwin, 1893-1966
topic: label: Occupation
content: Architects -- Massachusetts
label: Topic
content: Theater architecture -- Germany
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Motion picture film duplicated from original lent by Charles Forberg of Charles Forberg Associates, 1980. The film was transferred to video in 1991.
creator: label: Creator
content: Charles Forberg Associates
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Gropius was an architect, educator and founder of the Bauhaus school. Born in Berlin, he studied at the University of Charlottenburg-Berlin and Munich.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (film reel (3 min.), col., sd., 16mm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1960
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.charfora
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Video recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Also available on videocassette (VHS)
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Describes Gropius' unrealized project "Total Theater." The model shown was designed and fabricated by Charles Forberg Associates, New York. Also found on duplicate videocassette is "A Night In the Artist's Studio: Gasparo with model Magdelene Egry," ca. 1950, copied from 16 mm. film (8 min.) from the Oronzo Gasparo papers.