Row House with Interior Court project (Interior perspective)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American, born Germany. 1886–1969
after 1938
A presentation collage made from cut-and-pasted reproductions on illustration board in which Mies van der Rohe stages a sparsely detailed row-house interior to test how sculpture, architectural elements, and an abstract panel occupy a modernist space.
Your eye first rests on the quietly modeled female figure at left, set against a precise grid of floor and horizon lines, while a dark, textured rectangular panel at right creates a taut, silent dialogue across a wide, pale field.
The work reveals Mies’s method of composing architecture as a staged encounter between art and space, and exemplifies how modern architects used collage and perspectival drawing to explore spatial relationships and cultural placement within minimalist design.
Medium
Collage of cut-and-pasted reproductions on illustration board
Dimensions
30 x 40" (76.1 x 101.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Mies van der Rohe Archive, gift of the architect
Accession
690.1963
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