Ludwig Mies van der Rohe art links 

Original works by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Art Institute of Chicago

Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois
House built by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1951

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
"MR" Armchair, 1927

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Many works online

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Mies in Berlin/Mies in America

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Bauhaus-Archiv Museum of Design, Berlin
Description of Mies van der Rohe's Architecture classes taught at the Bauhaus school 1930-1933

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
8 works by or related to the artist

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota

Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City (in Spanish)  

National Gallery of Victoria, Australia   NEW!
Barcelona chair

Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art, New York City   NEW!
Table from the Barcelona Pavilion

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 chairs by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe online

Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 

Christie's Past Sale Archive   NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive   NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
6 works documented

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Great Buildings Online

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe  
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)  

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

designboom magazine

Time Magazine
"Museum Without Walls", 1973 article by Robert Hughes

 

The BBC
Audio selections from an interview with the architect

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   search inside Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography search inside The Master Builders: Le Corbusier, Mies Van Der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright search inside The Presence of Mies search inside Mies van der Rohe search inside Fear of Glass - Mies van der Rohe's Pavilion in Barcelona search inside West meets East. Mies van der Rohe look inside Mies Van Der Rohe At Work look inside Mies in Berlin look inside Mies van der Rohe Farnsworth House: Weekend House/Wochenendhaus look inside Architecture in Europe: VI Mies van der Roh look inside Mies van der Rohe: Stuttgart, Barcelona and Brno