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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BRGA.45.9
People
Walter Gropius, German (Berlin, Germany 1883 - 1969 Boston, Mass., USA)
Unidentified Artist
Title
Apartment House Communal Rooms for Werkbund Exhibition, Paris, 1930: Library
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
c. 1930
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/168043

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet: 16.9 x 17.4 cm (6 5/8 x 6 7/8 in.)
image: 16.5 × 16.9 cm (6 1/2 × 6 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • stamp: Stamped in red ink at center: Photo L'Illustration Paris
  • (not assigned): Stamped in red ink at l.l.: bauatelier prod. walter gropius / berlin w35 / potsdamer str. 121a / tel.: b 1 kurfürst 2583

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Walter Gropius
Object Number
BRGA.45.9
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund, Walter Gropius: An Illustrated Biography, Phaidon Press (London and New York, 2022), p. 150, fig. 21, ill. (b/w)

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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