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WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd. Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe. Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1910.
WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd. Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe. Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1910. 2 portfolios, 2° (640 x 402 mm) and text volumes (408 x 315 mm). 68 lithographed plates (of 72) and 27 (of 28) with tissue overlays (only lacking plate 33a; 56; 56a; 57 plate and tissue). (Some light chipping mostly to margins of tissue, a few tissue overlays detached). Text in English (first and last page detached and chipped along edges) and German (16 German text leaves only). Text and plates loose as issued in 2 cloth-backed board portfolios (worn, remnants of silk ties). Provenance : G. Broes van Dort Co., Architectural Books Chicago (bookseller’s label in first volume). FIRST EDITION of Wright's scarce "Wasmuth Portfolio." The Wasmuth portfolio was a collaborative effort between Ernst Wasmuth, a Berlin publisher, and Frank Lloyd Wright It was Wasmuth's idea to publish a complete folio of Wright's work to date. The project was completed during Wright's first trip to Europe in 1909, and was published in 1910. The collection of Wright's houses and commercial buildings received far more attention and praise in Europe than in the United States, and some contemporary architects called it "the most important book of the century." The Wasmuth lithographs brought Wright's distinctive Prairie Style to the attention of European modernists Walter Gropius Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ("Wright's work presented an architectural world of unexpected force, clarity of language and disconcerting richness of form") and Le Corbusier, who were then starting their careers. Wright returned to the United States in 1911, and settled in Taliesin, were he stored the plates of the portfolio for the American distribution. In 1914 a fire destroyed the building and the Wasmuth portfolio "went up in smoke when Taliesin burned. Some thirty copies only were saved" (Wright in his Autobiography. ) Sweeney 87.