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Konrad Wachsmann Untitled [aircraft hangar ?] lithograph, 1963, signed in pencil, dated ("11.22.63") and numbered from the edition of 50 ("2/50"), on tan C.M.Fabriano paper; in excellent condition image 11 1/4 x 17 1/2 inches sheet 18 5/8 x 25 5/8 inches SOLD Konrad Wachsmann was born in Frankfurt in 1901. He initially apprenticed as a carpenter but went on to study at the College of Art, and the Academy of Arts, in Dresden from 1920-24. He studied with the architect and designer Hans Poelzig, and worked as the chief architect at Germany's largest wood construction company in the 1920s. In 1925 Wachsmann developed a prefabricated wood single-family house, the most famous customer for which was Albert Einstein who, in 1929, commissioned a summer-home from him. In 1938 Wachsmann moved to Paris, and in 1941 Einstein assisted him in emigrating to the United States. In 1945 Wachsmann developed a mobile aircraft hangar for the Atlas Air Corporation (the design of this lithograph is most likely based on this structure), and he then worked with Walter Gropius in Boston, developing the prefabricated "Packaged House System". From 1949 to 1964 he taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, and from 1964 to his retirement in 1974, at the University of California, Los Angeles. Wachsmann died in 1980. We believe this lithograph to be the only print he produced. PURCHASING INFORMATION |
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