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Berlin Development Project, Friedrichstadt District, Office and Commercial Buildings, Berlin, Germany, Perspective View

A black-and-white perspective aerial photograph of city blocks, one section overlaid with drawings of building developments.

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  • A black-and-white perspective aerial photograph of city blocks, one section overlaid with drawings of building developments.

Date:

1928

Artist:

Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer
American, born Germany, 1885–1967

About this artwork

Leading up to his work at the Bauhaus, German architect and urban planner Ludwig Hilberseimer created several dramatic, experimental plans to remake the historical European city. His Friedrichstadt project, for example, proposed replacing a large section of existing historical urban fabric in central Berlin with nine massive linear blocks. While grounded in studies of the local economy and environment, the visual language of this project is part of a broader modernist visual propaganda created by many architects of the period, most famously Le Corbusier, pitting the order of the new city against the disorder—whether imagined or real—of the old.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Architecture and Design

Artist

Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer

Title

Berlin Development Project, Friedrichstadt District, Office and Commercial Buildings, Berlin, Germany, Perspective View

Place

Berlin (Place depicted)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1927–1928

Medium

Collage, gelatin silver print, ink on paper

Dimensions

17.2 × 25 cm (6 3/4 × 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of George E. Danforth

Reference Number

1983.1804.2

Extended information about this artwork

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