• Paul Goesch (draughtsman)

Visionary design for a capital with branch motifs

circa 1920-1921

- Design for a capital with several bands of a brown scallop pattern, and two branch motifs.

• theoretical drawing
• ornamental drawing

Graphite and gouache

sheet: 9.3 x 11.7 cm (3 11/16 x 4 5/8 in.) secondary support: 20.9 x 16.4 cm (8 1/4 x 6 7/16 in.)

DR1988:0234

• line drawing

• sketch elevation (drawing)

- The sheet is glued to a folded sheet of paper at the l.r. corner. An old fold runs horizontally across the c. of the secondary support; apparently it was a folder which enclosed this and possibly other drawings.

inscribed - by the draughtsman, in graphite, u.l.: "Entwurf zu einem Capitäl [sic]"; and l.r.: "Goesch" numbered - the draughtsman, in graphite and purple pencil, verso, u.r.: "(803)" inscribed - on the secondary support, by an unknown hand, in graphite, verso, c.l.: "2 Entwurfe / 50"

• architecture

• capital
• fantastic architecture
• Expressionism