77/ 139 [Association Porza]. Bal-Paré! Die internationale Künstlergemeinschaft Porza veranstaltet am Sonntag, den 3.Februar den großen Ball (...). Berlin, Association Porza, n.d. (1930s?), fold. invitation, 22,5x44,5 cm. (unfold.), printed in black and blue on recto and verso, ill. and typography by R. BUSONI and M. DUNGERT.

= The Association Porza was founded in the 1920s by the Swiss sculptor Mario Bernasconi, the Russian painter Arthur Bryks and the German painter and poet Werner Alvo von Alvensleben. They met in the Italan village of Porza, where they came up with the idea to form an International organization that could supply temporary artist's residents in an environment of nature for a small rent. At one time there were several homes over Europe, and the Association Porza counted 1500 members in Germany and over 2000 members in France, among them Le Corbusier, Jean Cocteau, Antoine de Saint Exupery, Mauriac and Dimitri Marianoff, son in law of Albert Einstein. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE III.