BRGA.20.57.2: Bauhaus Building, Dessau, 1925-1926: Main entrance on opening day, 4 December 1926

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BRGA.20.57.2

People

Photothek, German (active 1925 - 1926)
Architect: Walter Gropius, German (Berlin, Germany 1883 - 1969 Boston, Mass., USA)

Title

Bauhaus Building, Dessau, 1925-1926: Main entrance on opening day, 4 December 1926

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

1926

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/176647

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 12.1 x 16.5 cm (4 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• stamp: verso, l.l., purple ink, German: PHOTOTHEK

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Object Number

BRGA.20.57.2

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

cover sheet of tracing paper attached at upper edge for reproduction purposes

Publication History

• Margret Kentgens-Craing, ed., The Dessau Bauhaus Building, 1926-1999, Birkhäuser (Basel, Switzerland, 1998), see p. 68
• Elaine Hochman, La Bauhaus. Crisol de la Modernidad, Paidós (Barcelona, 2002)
• Jerry Torres Santiago, Mayagüez y Klumb: La Historia Olvidada Arquitectura del Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez, Centro de Publicaciones Académicas (Puerto Rico, 2015), p. 80, fig. 78, ill.
• Magdalena Droste, Bauhaus 1919-1933 (mini version), Taschen and Bauhaus-Archiv (Cologne, 2019), pp. 8-9, ill. (b/w)
• Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund, Walter Gropius: An Illustrated Biography, Phaidon Press (London and New York, 2022), p. 90, fig. 9, ill. (b/w)

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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