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PP/24/14/98 - [Letter, Ise Gropius to Jack Pritchard, 18/1/73]

Reference code
PP/24/14/98
Level of description
Item
Title
[Letter, Ise Gropius to Jack Pritchard, 18/1/73]
Date/s
1973
Quantity & Format
1 leaf Letters (typescript)
Personal name
Franciscono, Marcel
Taut, Bruno, 1880-1938
Wagner, Martin, 1885-1957
Leeuw, C. H. van der
Yeats, W. B.
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949
Romains, Jules
Jencks, Charles, 1939-
Norton, Peter
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969
Gropius, Ise
Subject
Fagus-Werk (Alfeld-an-der-Leine, Germany)
Werkbund Exhibition (1914 : Cologne)
Totaltheater (proposed building)
Volta Theatre Conference (1934 : Rome)
Germany -- Social history and conditions -- 1933-1945
Creator
Gropius, Ise.
Creator
Pritchard, John Craven,
Administrative/Biographical history
recipient
Scope and content
Answers specific points in a paper by Pritchard on Walter Gropius, mentioning Marcel Franciscono's book on Gropius, Gropius' friend Bruno Taut, the Fagus and Koeln Werkbund buildings, Gropius' partner Wagner and a project in East Prussia, the Totaltheater and the Volta Theatre Conference, C.H. van der Leeuw's financial help with the Gropiuses' conference expenses, attendance of Yeates, Maeterlink and Jules Romains, Mr Jencks' references to Gropius and Goebbels' office, Mies van der Rohe leaving Germany, and Peter Norton's comments about Ise Gropius
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