BR55.51: Crane Fly
Textile Arts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- BR55.51
- People
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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
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label: not attached, blue ink, printed, German: Entwurf: Prof. J. Hoffmann
Marke: Kohlschnacke 1 S/1
Breite: 90 Preis: 9.90
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label: not attached, blue ink, printed, German: Entwurf: Prof. J. Hoffmann
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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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
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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mounted with BR55.53, BR55.54, and BR55.55
black ink
Verification Level
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