Austrian Architect (13 results)

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original red and black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered in black, graphic design to the end papers. Folio. 12½'' x 10''. The Wiener Werkstätte established in 1903 by the graphic designer and painter Koloman Moser, the architect Josef Hoffmann and the patro…

4to. Ca 95 pencil drawings (including occasional pen-and-ink drawings and watercolours), as well as entries and drawings by other hands on a total of 187 ff. Contemporary cloth with illustrated vellum title label and spine label. The drawings - some of which are very finely executed, though most constitute mere perfunctory sketc…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Original typewritten letter written in response to questions about some interior decorations and curtains during the construction of a Republican Turkish school, signed 'Professor Egli'. 30x23 cm. In Turkish (Modern). 1 p. Chipped and damaged right side. Otherwise a good paper. Written to 'Zeki…

10 : 63 cm. Many folded. Arno Heinz (born in Innsbruck, Austria 1941)is a many sided architect, member of the French Order of Architecture. He was working a lot in the Middle East, and among other projects he was designing the palace of the Saudi Royal Familly, as well as the restauration of culturall monumetns in the arabic reg…

8vo. 1½ pages on bifolium. To an unidentified friend, apologizing for answering so late and explaining that he had to work at the museum during the hot summer. He asks whether the recipient's acquaintance might be interested in paintings from the museum depot, mentioning three "qualitatively very fine" pictures that had been lis…

4to. 1 page. To the graphologist Fritz Schweighofer, expressing his interest in Schweighofer's research on graphology and asking for an analysis of these handwritten lines: "Ihre Forschungsarbeit, die sich auf Handschriften als Charakterausdruck bezieht, ist von grossem und allgemeinem Interesse. Vielleicht darf man erfahren was…

1 leaf 8vo (220 x 142 mm) and 1 sketch on tracing paper (445 x 157 mm, torn in two horizontally). Pencil, blue crayon and ink on paper. Design for an ivory letter opener with silver dedication plaque, to be gifted by the citizens' association of Vienna's 5th district on the occasion of the 50th birthday of the painter Joseph Stu…

Large 4to. 1 p. To Mildred Sloane, the wife of artist and architect Blanding Sloane (1886-1975), regarding the trip to New Mexico: "[.] It looks like there will be an interesting time in New Mexiko this summer and I appreciate the possibility to see something of it. Just spoke at the San Francisco convention of the Federation of…

Large 4to. Altogether (1+1 =) 2 pp. on 2 ff. To the artist and architect Blanding Sloane (1886-1975), asking him for suggestions regarding blueprints for "a crafts center to be erected adjacent to a Mexican Housing Project on which I was and am the consultant", and making arrangements to visit New Mexico for a lecture. Neutra al…

Mostly large 8vo. Altogether 4½ pp. on 7 ff. Comprises 4 envelopes. Interesting letters to the German sculptor Rudolf von Weyr (1847-1914), on the monument for the Viennese mayor Karl Lueger, for which Wagner had submitted a draft which was rewarded afterwards but was not realized. The draft, which was finally selected from 53 s…

Postkarte (blanko) in Tinte mit Empfehlung eigenhändig signiert - mit Repro-Farbporträtfoto unter rotes Passepartout (4 to) gerahmt Ihrem Wunsche entsprechend OTTO WAGNER (mit sehr schöner Signatur ! , Rückseitig auf Postkarte an den Autographensammler und stud.med. (später Dr.med. / Dermatologe) Alwin Scharlau in Rostock, dem e…