BR49.247.A-B: Table Lamp

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR49.247.A-B

People

Wilhelm Wagenfeld, German (Bremen, Germany 1900 - 1990 Stuttgart, Germany)

Title

Table Lamp

Classification

Lighting Devices

Work Type

lighting device

Date

1924

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/217376

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Nickel-plated metal, opaline glass and string

Dimensions

sight: 32 x 17.5 cm (12 5/8 x 6 7/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1949

Object Number

BR49.247.A-B

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

According to the record card, the lampshade of this lamp is missing. A note by Eleanor Hight in 1980 signals that the lampshades of BR49.247 and BR49.248 were switched, and have remained this way. (K. Mims, 8/28/02)

Publication History

• Beate Manske, "A Design Makes History: Wilhelm Wagenfeld's Bauhaus Lamp," in Wilhelm Wagenfeld 1900-1990, ed. Beate Manske (Hatje Cantz: 2000). (2000)

Exhibition History

• A Tribute to Walter Gropius, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 05/16/1983 - 07/01/1983
• 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 02/13/2015; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/11/2015 - 05/10/2015

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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