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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR55.51
People
Josef Hoffmann, Austrian (Pirnitz, Moravia (now Brtnice, Czech Republic) 1870 - 1956 Vienna, Austria)
Manufactured for the Wiener Werkstätte (1903 - 1932)
Title
Crane Fly
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Kohlschnacke
Classification
Textile Arts
Work Type
textile
Date
c. 1910-1912
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Austria, Vienna
Culture
Austrian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/223688

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink on silk
Technique
Relief print
Dimensions
14.4 x 10.2 cm (5 11/16 x 4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: not attached, blue ink, printed, German: Entwurf: Prof. J. Hoffmann
    Marke: Kohlschnacke 1 S/1
    Breite: 90 Preis: 9.90

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Rudolph Rosenthal, 1914, Sold to Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1954.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchased from Rudolph Rosenthal, 1954, Gift to HUAM, 1955. Given to the BRM in exchange for 50 early 20th-century German textiles

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession Year
1955
Object Number
BR55.51
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
mounted with BR55.53, BR55.54, and BR55.55
black ink

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