BRGA.20.57.1: Bauhaus Building, Dessau, 1925-1926: Workshop façade
Photographs
This object does not yet have a description.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- BRGA.20.57.1
- People
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Lucia Moholy, British (Prague, Czech Republic 1894 - 1989 Zurich, Switzerland)
Architect: Walter Gropius, German (Berlin, Germany 1883 - 1969 Boston, Mass., USA)
- Title
- Bauhaus Building, Dessau, 1925-1926: Workshop façade
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Bauhausgebäude Dessau, Werkstattfassade
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1926
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/199138
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
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image: 20.2 x 16.8 cm (7 15/16 x 6 5/8 in.)
sheet: 20.9 x 17.5 cm (8 1/4 x 6 7/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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stamp: verso, u.r., purple ink, German: FOTO LUCIA MOHOLY-DESSAU
Ohne Erlaubnis / Reproduktion verboten - inscription: verso, below stamp, purple crayon: 1926
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inscription: verso, u.l., purple crayon, German: das bauhaus / in dessau
Im I/148
Lu 5 [crossed out]
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stamp: verso, u.r., purple ink, German: FOTO LUCIA MOHOLY-DESSAU
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Sachsse 137
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Ise Gropius
- Copyright
- © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Object Number
- BRGA.20.57.1
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Rolf Sachsse and Sabine Hartmann, Lucia Moholy: Bauhaus Fotografin, Bauhaus-Archiv (Berlin, Germany, 1995), no. 137
- L'Esprit du Bauhaus, exh. cat., Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris and Foundation d'entreprise Hermès (Paris, 2016), p. 169, fig. 14, ill.
Exhibition History
- Dancing on the Roof: Photography at the Bauhaus (1923-1929), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 06/04/2001 - 08/26/2001
- The Bauhaus and Harvard, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/08/2019 - 07/28/2019
Subjects and Contexts
- The Bauhaus
Verification Level
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