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In 1925, Engelmann and Wittgenstein were commissioned by the philosopher’s sister, Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein – known, among other things, for posing for Gustav Klimt – to design her house in Vienna. The three-year project unfolded alongside a profound friendship, documented in an important corpus of letters published posthumously in 1967.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOver a discoloured facsimile of Engelmann’s publication of philosophical meditations and exchanges with Wittgenstein, Kosuth pastes photographs documenting the architectural transformation of the city of Ghent, where the book was commissioned and published. 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