The Giedion World: Siegfried Giedion and Carola Giedion-Welcker in
Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968) and Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893-1979) were among the most influential scholars of art and architectural history during the early twentieth century. Of particular impact was their role in connecting leading protagonists of modernism in architecture, art, and literature, such as Alvar Aalto, Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Breuer, Max Ernst, Walter Gropius, Barbara Hepworth, Le Corbusier, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Piet Mondrian, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp. The interactions they initiated, for example, on the new vision in photography or the synthesis of arts continue to be highly relevant to the present day. Drawing on a rich trove of documents-16,000 letters and 10,000 photographs and negatives, among other materials-that has only recently become fully accessible for research, The Giedion World offers a long-awaited reevaluation of Sigfried and Carola Giedion-Welcker's work and lasting significance. Featuring a vast number of previously unpublished documents and photographs alongside excerpts from the extensive correspondence between the pair and their artist friends and colleagues in academia, it provides unique and manifold insight into the "Giedion universe."
Almut Grunewald is a scholar of art history, working as a research assistant at ETH Zurich's Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture. Arthur Ruegg, born 1942, is professor emeritus for architecture and building construction at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). He took his degree in architecture from ETH Zurich in 1967 and ran his own studio ARCOOP in Zurich 1971-98. He has published widely on architecture and architectural history in books and journals and is a renowned expert on the work of Le Corbusier.
Author: Almut Grunewald
Format: Hardback, 420 pages, 220mm x 330mm
Published: 2019, Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag, Switzerland
Genre: Fine Arts / Art History
Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968) and Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893-1979) were among the most influential scholars of art and architectural history during the early twentieth century. Of particular impact was their role in connecting leading protagonists of modernism in architecture, art, and literature, such as Alvar Aalto, Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Breuer, Max Ernst, Walter Gropius, Barbara Hepworth, Le Corbusier, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Piet Mondrian, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp. The interactions they initiated, for example, on the new vision in photography or the synthesis of arts continue to be highly relevant to the present day. Drawing on a rich trove of documents-16,000 letters and 10,000 photographs and negatives, among other materials-that has only recently become fully accessible for research, The Giedion World offers a long-awaited reevaluation of Sigfried and Carola Giedion-Welcker's work and lasting significance. Featuring a vast number of previously unpublished documents and photographs alongside excerpts from the extensive correspondence between the pair and their artist friends and colleagues in academia, it provides unique and manifold insight into the "Giedion universe."
Almut Grunewald is a scholar of art history, working as a research assistant at ETH Zurich's Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture. Arthur Ruegg, born 1942, is professor emeritus for architecture and building construction at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). He took his degree in architecture from ETH Zurich in 1967 and ran his own studio ARCOOP in Zurich 1971-98. He has published widely on architecture and architectural history in books and journals and is a renowned expert on the work of Le Corbusier.