Modern Greetings: Architecture Photography in the 1920s and 1930s Germany

Book Description
What is so special about these Classic Modern architecture motifs is that all photos are postcards. This private collection gives an authentic picture of avant-garde architecture between emphatic Expressionism and 'liberated living' in 'White Modernism'. The collection features world-famous views of modern architecture from Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Cologne and Berlin as well as views of hospital rooms and nightclubs, administration buildings, large-scale housing estates and exhibition pavilions, most of them never before shown in published photographs. The lion's share of the credit for the calculated effect created by these realised architectural visions goes to the photographers of 'the New Seeing', whose 'camera eyes' staged the factories and high-rise buildings as radiant cubes and uninhabited sculpture on a grand scale.

From the Publisher
The publication presents a selection of historic architecture postcards, projecting an authentic image of avant-garde building between Expressionist emphasis and 'liberated living' in 'White Modernism'. Distinguished exponents of this architecture represented here include Erich Mendelsohn, Le Corbusier, J. J. P. Oud, Hans Scharoun, Adolf G. Schneck, Wilhelm Riphahn and Peter Behrens and their work was photographed by leading photographers of the day.


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