Concert Hall project (Interior perspective)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American, born Germany. 1886–1969
1942
A large mixed-media collage on a gelatin silver photograph in which Ludwig Mies van der Rohe stages an imagined concert-hall interior using cut-and-pasted papers, painted elements, and gouache to explore spatial relationships and atmosphere.
What hits you first is the theatrical arrangement of monumental geometric planes—a bright white canopy, deep rectilinear blocks, and a luminous yellow wedge—set under an exposed steel roof and balanced by a single seated figure that gives human scale to the abstract stage.
This 1942 montage translates Mies’s austere modernist vocabulary into a cinematic proposal for experience, and exemplifies how architects began using photographic collage to make spatial ideas visible and persuasive beyond traditional drawings.
Medium
Graphite, cut-and-pasted photoreproduction, cut-and-pasted papers, cut-and-pasted painted paper, and gouache on gelatin silver photograph mounted on board
Dimensions
29 1/2 x 62" (75 x 157.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Mies van der Rohe Archive, gift of Mrs. Mary Callery
Accession
571.1963
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