Browse Items (36 total)

  • Collection: Stefan Hirsch and Elsa Rogo Collection

Iztapalapa Study no.1

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A loose sketch from a trip to Iztapalapa, Mexico.

Iztapalapa Study no.2

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A loose sketch from a trip to Iztapalapa, Mexico.

Las Momias

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Postcard depicting "Las Momias", an installation view of the Museo de las Momias de Guanajunto (Guanajunto Mummies Museum). The bodies were originally buried in a local cemetery after a large cholera outbreak in Guanajunto, Mexico. The families of…

Letter to Advisees

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A letter written by Stefan Hirsch to his advisees regarding proper behavior and etiquette on campus.

Mies van der Rohe with Stefan Hirsch, 1955

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Mies Van der Rohe, a prominent modernist architectect, visits Bard's campus. Pictured from left: Stefan Hirsch, Mies Van der Rohe, Dick Lischen. In front of Hoffman Memorial Library, Bard College.

Mural in South Hall, "Youth Groping for Reality"

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Photograph of a mural in South Hall, painted by Beverly Pruzan '48 and Irene Zimmerman '48 under the direction of Professor Stefan Hirsch. The mural, done in egg tempera, is entitled "Youth Groping For Reality", and is divided into three segments:…

Museum

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Using the ethnographic museum as source material, Hirsch deploys the iconography of archaeology and exhibition to mix elements of Pre-Columbian cultures with modern style. The drawing emphasizes the development of museum culture in Mexico, such as…

National Museum of Archaeology, History, and Ethnography

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This photograph was likely taken at the earlier location of the present-day National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico. Pictured are several pre-Columbian and indigenous sculptures atop black stone pedestals. In the background is a later mural by an…

Portrait of Elsa

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This portrait demonstrates Hirsch’s interest in the Precisionist style. The geometry of Elsa’s face is carefully highlighted as the tension between volume and expression is resolved in Stefan’s demanding draftsmanship.

Portrait of Stefan Hirsch

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Portrait of Stefan Hirsch..