Creator:

Charles Forberg Associates  Search this

Subject:

Piscator, Erwin  Search this

Gropius, Walter  Search this

Type:

Video recordings

Place of publication, production, or execution:

Other

Physical Description:

1 Item, film reel (3 min.), col., sd., 16mm.

Access Note / Rights:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center.

Summary:

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.

Citation:

The total theater model of the project designed by architect Walter Gropius for Erwin Piscator, Berlin, Germany 1927, circa 1960. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Additional Forms:

Also available on videocassette (VHS)

Biography Note:

Gropius was an architect, educator and founder of the Bauhaus school. Born in Berlin, he studied at the University of Charlottenburg-Berlin and Munich.

Language Note:

Undetermined .

Provenance:

Motion picture film duplicated from original lent by Charles Forberg of Charles Forberg Associates, 1980. The film was transferred to video in 1991.

Location Note:

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001

Topic:

Theater architecture -- Germany  Search this

Theme:

Art instruction and services  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)21873

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)212468

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Theme:

Art instruction and services

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

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