Mies van der Rohe
Subtitle: Montage = collage
By: herausgegeben von Andreas Beitin, Wolf Eiermann, Brigitte Franzen ; Übersetzung / translation: Fiona Elliott, Helen Ferguson, Ben Fergusson, Sarah Rivière, Christina Bösel
Contributors: Riviere, Sarah, translator; Bosel, Christina, translator; Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst; Museum Georg Schäfer
Published: 2017
Language: ger
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9783960980537
Subjects: Collage; Criticism and interpretation; Exhibitions; Photocollage
Other titles: Montage; Collage
Description: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), one of the 20th century's most important architects, created numerous montages and collages between 1910 and 1965 that are fascinating illustrations of the design principles of his architecture. These works, most of them large-format, are far more than merely sketches that accompanied his creative process as an architect. They are works of art in their own right that show Mies van der Rohe's structural vision in its purest form. Like almost no other visual art technique, collage and photomontage reflect the aesthetic principles, the zeitgeist, and the attitude to life of Modernism.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Mies van der Rohe: the collages from the MoMA" held at the Ludwig Forum, Aachen, October 28, 2016-February 12, 2017 and the Museum Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt, February 26-May 28, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references.

Parallel texts in German and English.
Table of contents: title: Montage collage --; title: Dissociation of time :; title: Some ideas on Mies and collage  -- Brigitte Franzen; title: Mies, Dada, montage :; title: Notes on a reception history  -- Dietrich Neumann; title: Friedrichstrasse :; title: The contexts of an image, 1922-1924  -- Adrian Sudhalter; title: "This type lives":; title: Montages of architectonic imagery  -- Lutz Robbers; title: Montage collage --; title: The visuality of space and the space of vision :; title: On Mies van der Rohe's late photocollages  -- Martino Stierli; title: Between reality and ideal :; title: The function of collage in Mies van der Rohe's oeuvre in relation to the design context  -- Lena Büchel; title: Montage collage --; title: Walk-in collage :; title: Mies van der Rohe's design of his 1947 exhibition at MoMA  -- Barry Bergdoll; title: "Architecture, painting, and sculpture as a creative unity" :; title: About Mies van der Rohe's visions on art and architecture  -- Holger Otten; title: Montage collage --; title: From Glashaus to "glass houses" :; title: Mies van der Rohe's collages in the context of contemporary art  -- Andreas Beitin; title: The museum design for Schweinfurt -- Wolf Eiermann.