Photograph of a model for a Red Army Theater, Moscow

People:

Unknown (photographer)
Gleb Glushchenko (role unspecified)
Daniil F. Fridman (role unspecified)

Title:

Photograph of a model for a Red Army Theater, Moscow

Date:

after 1931

Description:

- Photographs PH1998:0007:001-058 show models and drawings for four different projects and three variations for the decorative scheme for the principal façade for a Red Army Theater in Moscow by Fridman and Glushchenko. Photographs for the four projects include: first project - drawings (PH1998:0007:001-013), a model for the exterior (PH1998:0007:014-020) and a model for the interior (PH1998:0007:021-027); second project - drawings (PH1998:0007:028-040) and a model (PH1998:0007:041-045); third project - a model (PH1998:0007:046-052); fourth project - a model (PH1998:0007:056-058). Photographs for the three variations for the decorative scheme for the principal façade include two elevations for the principal façade (PH1998:0007:053-054) and a perspective drawing (PH1998:0007:055). The model for the exterior and model for the interior for the first project are inscribed with "RKKA" which stands for Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (model for the exterior: PH1998:0007:015-016, PH1998:0007:018-020; model for the interior PH1998:0007:021-022, PH1998:0007:024, PH1998:0007:026-027).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 14.9 x 22.7 cm sheet: 16.7 x 22.6 cm

Reference number:

PH1998:0007:016

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

imprinted - in the image, c.r.: "TEATR R.K.K.A. / ARKHITEKTORA / GLUSHCHENKO i / FRIDMAN." [THEATER OF R.K.K.A. / ARCHITECTS / GLUSHCHENKO and / FRIDMAN.; scratched on model base] inscribed and dated - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print, verso, u.c. to c.r.: "Glushchenko i Fridman" [Glushchenko and Fridman]; with title and "1932g" [1932y[ear]]; and c.: "X" [circled; sideways]

Location:

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

model (representation)
theatre

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Howard Schickler et David Lafaille/
Gift of Howard Schickler and David Lafaille

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