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Eight Photographs Of Modernist Apartment Of Herman Sachs In The Manola Court Apartments Designed For Him In Silverlake By Rudolph Schindler
Sachs, Herman (Hermann); Palaro Sachs; Architecture By Rudolph Schindler
Language: English
Published by Herman Sachs, Los Angeles, 1927
- First Edition
- Signed
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Add to basketNo Binding. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Six Photographs Printed On Folding Cards Or Vellum, As Greeting Cards Or Stationary, Showing The Interior Of Herman Sachs' Apartment In Silverlake, Designed For Him By Architect Rudolph Schindler. Also, Two Additional Original Photographs. Sachs Was An American Artist And Architectu…ral Decorator, Who Also Worked In Textiles And Ceramics Of Modernist Design. One Mounted Photograph Is Signed "Merry Christmas. Herman Sachs 19-27"; Another To P. G. Napolitano Herman Sachs 1927" (Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano Was An Apprentice, Later Employee, Later Friend Of Napolitano, And They Worked Together On Such Buildings As Los Angeles City Hall And Bullock's Wilshire). Another "To P. G. N. Palaro Sachs. 1927". Palaro Was Possibly Sach's Spouse. Born In Romania To Jewish Parents, Herman [Hermann] Sachs Immigrated To The U.S. As A Child. He First Trained Under His German-Born Father, A Painter In The Court Of Queen Elisabeth Of Romania. Sachs Continued His Artistic Training In Europe, Spending The 1910-1920 Period In Germany, Where He Founded The Munich School Of Expressionists (Munchen Expressionist Werkstätten). Upon Returning To The United States In 1920, Sachs Exhibited At The Art Institute Of Chicago And Established The Chicago Industrial Art School, Which Soon Failed Due To Lack Of Sufficient Funding. Afterward, Sachs Became The First Director Of The Dayton Museum Of Fine Arts, Now The Dayton Art Institute. During This Time, He Also Served As The U.S. Representative Of Artist George Grosz. Around 1924, Sachs Moved To Los Angeles Where He Designed The Interiors Of The New Gas Company Building. As A Muralist And Decorator, Sachs Went On To Design The Interiors Of Many Los Angeles Landmarks, Including The Bullocks Wilshire Building (Now Home To Southwestern Law School), Union Station, Los Angeles City Hall, And The Title Insurance And Trust Company Building. An Educator As Well As An Artist, Sachs Also Directed The Creative Art Students League Of Los Angeles. Sachs Was Active Within The L.A. Weimar Exile Community Of Artists, Writers, And Filmmakers. His Friend, The Architect Rudolph Schindler, Designed Sachs' L.A. House, The Manola Court Apartments. Original Photograph (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s).