BRGA.45.8: Werkbund Exhibition Paris, Room 1, Communal Rooms for a Ten-Story Apartment Building

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BRGA.45.8

People

Berliner Bild-Bericht, German? (active early 20th century)
Designed by Walter Gropius, German (Berlin, Germany 1883 - 1969 Boston, Mass., USA)

Title

Werkbund Exhibition Paris, Room 1, Communal Rooms for a Ten-Story Apartment Building

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

1930

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/168042

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

16.6 × 23.7 cm (6 9/16 × 9 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• stamp: Stamped in blue ink at center: Berliner Bild-Bericht / Berlin W.30, Eisenacher Str. 103. / Bei Reproduktion erbitte / Belegexemplar und Angabe der Firma / Alle Rechte vorbehalten
• stamp: Stamped in red ink at l.l.: bauatelier prof. walter gropius / berlin ... 35 / potsdamer str. 121a / tel.: b 1 kurfürst 2583
• label: Label in black ink at u.c.: nr. 9) werkbundausstellung paris, saal 1 (composition w. gropius) / metallbrücke aus "tezett" rosten. neukonstruktion und entwurf: w. gropius mit tezettwerk / otto schultz

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Walter Gropius

Object Number

BRGA.45.8

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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