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Lot Essay
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A10363.
Calder gave his Broche K as a gift to the daughter of
German-American architect, Oscar Nitzchke. Most famous for his
unrealised Maison de la Publicité projected for the
Champs-Elysées in 1935, Nitzchke was one of the great modernist
architects whose work "synthesises with ingenious simplicity the most
diverse avant-gardist trends of his time into the form of a new and
generalizable architectural paradigm." (Kenneth Frampton, Oscar
Nitzchke and the Ecole de Paris, in Oscar Nitzchke Architect, October 1985 New York.) Not only did Nitzchke bring Calder to Yale to speak to and meet the sculpture students in the late 1930's, but he also made possible the inclusion of a Calder mobile in a monumental exhibition at Yale mounted by Henry Kibel in 1943.
Calder gave his Broche K as a gift to the daughter of
German-American architect, Oscar Nitzchke. Most famous for his
unrealised Maison de la Publicité projected for the
Champs-Elysées in 1935, Nitzchke was one of the great modernist
architects whose work "synthesises with ingenious simplicity the most
diverse avant-gardist trends of his time into the form of a new and
generalizable architectural paradigm." (Kenneth Frampton, Oscar
Nitzchke and the Ecole de Paris, in Oscar Nitzchke Architect, October 1985 New York.) Not only did Nitzchke bring Calder to Yale to speak to and meet the sculpture students in the late 1930's, but he also made possible the inclusion of a Calder mobile in a monumental exhibition at Yale mounted by Henry Kibel in 1943.