Neue Architektur - Maxim. Worm – Carl Krayl Architekten Magdeburg
Berlin-Wien: Alda-Verlag. Hardcover. Small Folio. [2] 30 plates. Original black cloth over photo-illustrated boards with red and white lettering on cover, protected by modern mylar. Photographs by "Lichtbildverlag Rudolf Hatzold, Magedeburg." Photo documentation of new architecture by these Magdeburg architects, Maximilian Worm and Carl Krayl with photographs and architectural drawing by "Lichtbildverlag Rudolf Hatzold, Magedeburg.
The works of Maximilian Worm include competitions, proposals as well as realized industrial and administrative projects, with one photo showing the House Stork in Magedeburg. The photogravures included show designs for the House of Commerce in Frankfurt and the Deutsche Allegmeine Zeitung in Berlin, plus a design for the Lyceum in Stendal, Saxony, illustrated in twelve photographs.
Part two, works by Worm and Krayl, 1926/27, is illustrated in twenty-three photogravures, providing views of the exterior and the multi-facetted interior of the Magedeburg Healt Insurance building, including public service counter areas, Lichthof (air well), administrative offices and waiting room at the clinics, conference room, offices of management, stairways, and change room and bath house. Various photographs of the exterior includes one shot of the roof garden.
The final part with works by Carl Krayl an architectural drawing for a house at the Bodensee, a drawing and one photograph of the Bauhütte, a "slick" design and impressive photograph of the Union Building in Magedeburg, high riser studies and extension of storage halls in Magdeburg, a settlement in Fermersleben-Magedeburg, and a sales pavilion of the newspaper Volksstimme (Voice of the People).
Text in German. Light wear along edges of binding. Light age-toning, not affecting images. Starting at page showing stairways. Some age-toning along edges in block, not affecting images. Very good- condition. Item #53545
Price: $1,750.00