Null Bauhaus - Moholy, Lucia. New Bauhaus building in Dessau. Workshop building …
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Bauhaus - Moholy, Lucia. New Bauhaus building in Dessau. Workshop building 1925-26. original photograph. Vintage. Silver gelatin. Ca. 1926. format: 9 x 14 cm. Sent as a postcard to Mrs. E. Lindau in Dresden, postmarked: Dresden 14.10.1928. With short signed words of thanks ("for the plates") in pencil from the Dresden painter and Bauhaus student Margaret Camilla Leiteritz (1907-1976). Leiteritz studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1928 to 1931. In a competition organized by Hannes Meyer in 1929 for pattern designs for the wallpaper factory Gebrüder Rasch, Leiteritz won a third of the prizes on offer. Most of her previous artistic work was lost during the bombing of Dresden, evacuation to Silesia and expulsion; a few photos of her works have survived. - In the white margin on the front and verso with handwritten greetings presumably from Leiteritz's mother Camilla, who produced lithographs around 1904 and was employed by the Saxon Writers' Association. - Stamp on recto somewhat pressed through, slightly silvered, good overall. VAT: #

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Bauhaus - Moholy, Lucia. New Bauhaus building in Dessau. Workshop building 1925-26. original photograph. Vintage. Silver gelatin. Ca. 1926. format: 9 x 14 cm. Sent as a postcard to Mrs. E. Lindau in Dresden, postmarked: Dresden 14.10.1928. With short signed words of thanks ("for the plates") in pencil from the Dresden painter and Bauhaus student Margaret Camilla Leiteritz (1907-1976). Leiteritz studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1928 to 1931. In a competition organized by Hannes Meyer in 1929 for pattern designs for the wallpaper factory Gebrüder Rasch, Leiteritz won a third of the prizes on offer. Most of her previous artistic work was lost during the bombing of Dresden, evacuation to Silesia and expulsion; a few photos of her works have survived. - In the white margin on the front and verso with handwritten greetings presumably from Leiteritz's mother Camilla, who produced lithographs around 1904 and was employed by the Saxon Writers' Association. - Stamp on recto somewhat pressed through, slightly silvered, good overall. VAT: #

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