Dec 07, 2001 - Sale 1918

Sale 1918 - Lot 446

Price Realized: $ 920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
SIEVERS, WOLFGANG. "Gears for the Mining Industry, Vickers Ruwolt, Melbourne, Australia." Silver print, 10 1/2x8 1/4 inches, signed, titled, and dated, in pencil, on verso.<\t>1967; printed 2000
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Born in Berlin in 1913, Sievers was strongly influenced by the Bauhaus movement while studying at the Contempora School for Applied Arts. He escaped Nazi Germany in 1938 and established himself in Melbourne where he became an important and influential architectural and industrial photographer. This image was used as the cover on the first book dedicated to his work,<