Part of:

• Collection: Die gläserne Kette collection, 1911-1977
•    Series: Hermann Finsterlin, 1919-1923

People:

• O.M. Ungers (collector)
• Hermann Finsterlin (creator)
• Hermann Finsterlin (architect)
• Die gläserne Kette (archive creator)

Title:

Hermann Finsterlin

Date:

1919-1923

Level of archival description:
series

Extent and medium:

• 0.01 l.m. of textual records
  4 drawings

Scope and content:
Series documents the contribution of artist Hermann Finsterlin to the correspondence circle of Die gläserne Kette. Finsterlin wrote under the pseudonym Prometh (sometime appears as "Prometheus").
Born in Munich in 1897, Finsterlin studied at Munich University in chemistry, then in physics and medicine, and later in philosophy. He studied painting at the Kunstakademie in Munich in 1917 and 1918 and exhibited his work at the Ausstlelling für unbekannte Architekten. He published in "Frühlich", a magazine edited by Bruno Taut in which works by some members of Die gläserne Kette were featured. He painted frescoes in Tripoli, Majorca, and Tenerife. During the Nazi period, Finsterlin was commissionned to paint frescoes and portraits for the regime, but most of his work was destroyed during the war. He died in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1973. (Source: Ian Boyd Whyte, Bruno Taut and the Architecture of Activism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982)
The series comprises part of the correspondence of Hermann Finsterlin to the Die gläserne Kette circle, including a postcard. The series also includes some drawings by Finsterlin.

Reference number:

AP162.S1

Arrangement:
The original order of these materials was not discernable when they arrived at CCA.

Related units of description:

• The CCA collection contains other works by Hermann Finsterlin (approximately 10 objects, including drawings and a painting).

Contains:

• DR1988:0022:001-010, Material from Hermann Finsterlin mostly for Die gläserne Kette, 1919-1920