- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- BR49.247.A-B
- People
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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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Descriptions
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- 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
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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
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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
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The Bauhaus
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