Bauhaus Building, Dessau, 1925-1926: View from southwest | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: BRGA.20.21
People: Klaus Hertig, German (1908 - 1945)
Architect: Walter Gropius, German (Berlin, Germany 1883 - 1969 Boston, Mass., USA)
Title: Bauhaus Building, Dessau, 1925-1926: View from southwest
Classification: Photographs
Work Type: photograph
Date: 1926-1927, printed later
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/176209

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Gelatin silver print enlargements
Technique: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: sheet: 35.4 x 60.1 cm (13 15/16 x 23 11/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Ise Gropius
Object Number: BRGA.20.21
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
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Publication History

Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Joan Ockman, ed., The Modern Architecture Symposia, 1962-1966: A Critical Edition, The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture (New York, 2014), p. 69, fig. 57, ill. (b/w)

Subjects and Contexts

The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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