BRGA.22.5: Housing Development, Dessau-Törten, 1926-1928: Color scheme for walls and ceilings
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- BRGA.22.5
- People
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Werner Jackson (b. Isaacsohn), German (Holzminden, Germany 1904 - 1984 Oxford, England)
Walter Gropius, German (Berlin, Germany 1883 - 1969 Boston, Mass., USA)
- Title
- Housing Development, Dessau-Törten, 1926-1928: Color scheme for walls and ceilings
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1926-1928
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/176285
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- graphite, gouache, and collaged typewritten labels, on cream wove paper, tracing sheet attached
- Dimensions
- 42 x 59 cm (16 9/16 x 23 1/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: in black ink at u.r.: W. Isaacsohn
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Walter Gropius
- Copyright
- © Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin
- Object Number
- BRGA.22.5
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Andreas Schwarting, Die Siedlung Dessau-Torten: Rationalitat als asthetisches Programm, Thelem (Dresden, Germany, 2010), p. 156, fig. 133, ill.
- Morgan Ridler, "The Bauhaus Wall-Painting Workshop: Mural Painting to Wallpapering, Art to Product" (2016), p. 229-280
Subjects and Contexts
- The Bauhaus
Verification Level
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