New York-based sculptor Brandt Junceau studied Georg Kolbe (1877-1947) while on a DAAD Residence in Berlin. Junceau writes, “In 1929 there were already many Modernisms, but Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion, built around his installation of sculptor Georg Kolbe’s female nude, Morgen, became iconic. Mies knew the piece from Kolbe’s previous two-figure Morgen/Abend installation in Berlin. Today, a close look at both pieces in situ reveals with what stringent understatement the sculptor, and architect, invested a public setting with private feeling.”