With
reference to Mechanistic Cubism and the Cabaret-Berlin Kultur
of the
30's, two Weimar Repertoire artists investigate the allegorical
and
paradoxical "Kaiserstadt Katastrophe Allee" (the
Imperial City Meltdown Avenue).
The two artists' combined works were successfully used, in 1969,
for the
"
Agaves" condominium residences in Trieste, and, later "exported" to
other
buildings in Hamburg,
Munich and Regensburg.
The two full-size projects (cm 140 x cm 100 x cm 140), here shown,
are made in cardboard.
On suggestion of Bruno Loeb, the movie "METROPOLIS" directed
in 1926/1927 by
Fritz Lang with sets by Thea von Harbou, and especially the Rudolf
Klein-Rogge encounters with artificial human creations, were the
inspiration
of Richard Lindner following works.
In New York, Bruno Loeb according to the Weimar Republik Urban
Realism and
Mechanistic Cubism of George Grosz, Ivan Puni, Oskar Fischer and
Sandor
Bortnyik, suggested Lindner to continue to underline his paintings
with
words as the once magazine illustrator of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.
In 1969 the collaboration of Bruno Loeb and Richard Lindner yielded
the
stunning bas-reliefs of the "AGAVI" condominium in Trieste
as well as those
in department stores and office buildings in Hamburg, Munich and
Regensburg.
With the death of Richard Lindner in 1978, Bruno Loeb immersed
himself in
Kabbalistic studies and philosophical works, and only at the end
of the
century he returned to depict the "IMPERIAL CITY ARMOIRES" bringing
back to
life, as Elaine Horwitch, the Scottsdale and Santa Fè gallerist,
observed, "the decadent vitality, the icy voluptuousness of his invulnerable
victims"
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