Charles Forberg Associates
Size: 1 Item, film reel (3 min.), col., sd., 16mm.
Summary: Describes Gropius' unrealized project "Total Theater." The model shown was designed and fabricated by Charles Forberg Associates, New York. Also found on duplicate videocassette is "A Night In the Artist's Studio: Gasparo with model Magdelene Egry," ca. 1950, copied from 16 mm. film (8 min.) from the Oronzo Gasparo papers.
Gropius was an architect, educator and founder of the Bauhaus school. Born in Berlin, he studied at the University of Charlottenburg-Berlin and Munich.
Motion picture film duplicated from original lent by Charles Forberg of Charles Forberg Associates, 1980. The film was transferred to video in 1991.
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Also available on videocassette (VHS)
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The total theater model of the project designed by architect Walter Gropius for Erwin Piscator, Berlin, Germany 1927, circa 1960. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
