A plate from the Wasmuth Portfolio,depicting the floor plan of theDana-Thomas House.

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The Wasmuth portfolio (1910) is a two-volume folio of 100lithographs of the work of the American architect Frank LloydWright (18671959).

Titled Ausgefhrte Bauten und Entwrfe von Frank Lloyd Wright, itwas published in Germany in 1911 by the Berlin publisher ErnstWasmuth, with an accompanying monograph by Wright. It containedplans and perspectives (in linework only) of buildings from18931909. It was the first publication of any of Wright's work toappear anywhere in the world, as Wright had not published any of hiswork in his twenty previous years of activity in the United States.

The portfolio is significant as a link between Wright's pioneeringAmerican architecture, and the first generation of modernistarchitects in Europe. Wright toured Europe for a year from October 1909 through October 1910, partly tosupport the publication of the portfolio, but also to experience first-hand a great deal of Europeanarchitectural history.

Wright's early influence in northern Europe is unquestionable: Le Corbusier is known to have had and shareda copy, Czech architect Antonin Raymond and Austrian architects Rudolf Schindler and Richard Neutra allre-located to the United States in hopes of working for Wright, and one look at Willem Marinus Dudok's1924 Hilversum Town Hall betrays its origins. At the time of the portfolio's publication, three majorinfluential architects of the twentieth century (Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius)were all working essentially as apprentices in the atelier of Peter Behrens in Berlin,[1] where it has been saidthat work stopped for the day when the portfolio arrived. If this story is true, it reveals the magnitude of theimmediate impact of Wright's architecture in European circles, since Behrens could have conceivablyreceived a copy of the Wasmuth portfolio merely days or weeks after its publication.

Wright would never admit that the exchange worked both ways, always claiming that he took nothing fromhis year in Europe, but the work of Wright scholar Anthony Alofsin suggests that Wright was heavilyinfluenced by the work of the Vienna Secession. In turn, the Dutch De Stijl movement follows Wright'sdesigns by just a few years. De Stijl's major contributors credit Wright with some influence.

Approximately half of the images in the Wasmuth portfolio are the work of architect and one-time Wrightassistant Marion Mahony Griffin, whose visual style has a lot to do with its success.

As of 2009, the Portfolio is in print as Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright: The Early Period(18931909).

List of selected works contained in the Wasmuth PortfolioEdwin H. Cheney House, Oak Park, Illinois (in a National Historic District)Como Orchard Summer Colony, near Darby, MontanaCoonley House, Riverside, Illinois (a National Historic Landmark)Dana-Thomas House, Springfield, Illinois (a National Historic Landmark)Thomas P. Hardy House, Racine, Wisconsin (a National Historic Landmark)William R. Heath House, Buffalo, New YorkLarkin Administration Building, Buffalo, New York (demolished in 1950)Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York (a National Historic Landmark)

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ReferencesTurner P.V. (1983), Frank Lloyd Wright and the Young Le Corbusier Journal of the Society of ArchitecturalHistorians , Vol. 42, No. 4 (Dec., 1983) , pp. 350-359 Published by: University of California Press on behalf ofthe Society of Architectural Historians Article

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External linksComplete online access to the 100 Wasmuth portfoliolithographs (http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/FLWright-jp2)Wright, Frank Lloyd (1983). Drawings and Plans of FrankLloyd Wright: The Early Period (18931909). Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-24457-0.

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