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FORM Internationale Revue -- ISSUE 2 1958
1958réf. 44939Koln-ehrenfeld: Verlag An Den Westdeutschen. Very Good. First Edition. Original Printed Wrappers. Art and Art History German Language and Literature Most Recent Listing; 4to; Koln-Ehrenfeld: Very Good. 1958. First Edition. 56 pages; Clean and complete; no tears; corners square; light dust soiling to rear wrapper. Cover wrappers designed by Le Corbusier in red blue white and black. Profusely illustrated with monochrome photographs and drawings on treated paper. Some printed on red and green paper stock. Primary text in German with summaries of each article in English and French appended. Contents include: Welyausstellung al Architecture Brute by Schweicher Atomium building etc. ; Hollandische Buromobel Friso Kramer ; Treppen by Schweicher modern architectural stairways ; Schone Objekte Braun slide-projector Borletti sewing machine etc. ; Malevitch und Die 'Aktualitat' by Schweicher; Citroen by Jupp Ernst automobile design ; Meine Zusammenbau-Mobel aus Serienmassig Hergestellten Teilen by Hans Gugelot; Lippolds Plastische Sonne by Eduard Trier; Das Modern Jazz Quartet by Joachim Behrendt John Lewis Percy Heath Connie Kay Milt Jackson . Originally named "International Revue" form magazine was founded by Jupp Ernst Willem Sandberg Curt Schweicher and Wilhelm Wagenfeld in 1957. It was the world's legendary journal at the forefront of product industrial and communications design. Wilhelm Wagenfeld was a Bauhaus-trained German industrial designer. He studied under the famed Modernist artist László Moholy-Nagy and the German designer Christian Dell at the Bauhaus school. His belief that "to be useful is to be beautiful" is evident in his designs some of which are still in production. Wagenfeld refused to join the Nazi party and as punishment he was sent as a "political pest" to serve on the Eastern Front with the flying corp. He was captured in 1945 and held in a Russian prisoner of war camp until September 1945 when he returned to Weisswasser. Curt Schweicher 1908 - 1988 was a German art historian and museum director. From 1929 to 1933 he studied art history archeology and French literature in Paris Berlin and Bonn but was unable to complete his studies because he was exmatriculated after the Nazis came to power in 1933. When he and his wife the painter Margrit Lauer 1914-2002 gave assistance to opponents of the Nazi regime they faced arrest by the Gestapo and fled to Switzerland in 1940 where he was interned in Geneva. . . 1958. Verlag An Den Westdeutschen unknown
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