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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BRGA.21.55.A
People
Lucia Moholy, British (Prague, Czech Republic 1894 - 1989 Zurich, Switzerland)
Architect: Walter Gropius, German (Berlin, Germany 1883 - 1969 Boston, Mass., USA)
Title
Bauhaus Masters' Housing, Dessau, 1925-1926: Lucia Moholy and László Moholy-Nagy's Living Room
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
c. 1925
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/217897

Location

Location Details
Level 3, Room 3620, University Study Gallery,
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print with gouache retouchings
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 16.5 x 22.6 cm (6 1/2 x 8 7/8 in.)
sheet: 17 x 23.2 cm (6 11/16 x 9 1/8 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Sachsse 202

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.21.55.A
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Daina Augaitis, Allan Collier, and Stephanie Rebick, Modern in the Making: Post-war Craft and Design in British Columbia, Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver, 2020), p. 75, ill.
  • Laura Muir, Object Lessons: The Bauhaus and Harvard, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), pp. 251, 278, plate 16, ill. (color)
  • 1920er! Im Kaleidoskop der Moderne, exh. cat., Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland and Sandstein Verlag (Bonn and Dresden, 2023), p. 184, fig. 2, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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