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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1996.146
People
Designed by Josef Hoffmann, Austrian (Pirnitz, Moravia (now Brtnice, Czech Republic) 1870 - 1956 Vienna, Austria)
Manufactured by Wiener Werkstätte (1903 - 1932)
Title
Concordia Ball Dance-Card Holder and Dance Card
Classification
Books
Work Type
book
Date
1909
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Austria, Vienna
Culture
Austrian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/217935

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gold-plated brass, leather, marbled and printed papers
Dimensions
14.2 x 11.8 x 0.8 cm (5 9/16 x 4 5/8 x 5/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Bequest of Alice B. Lorris, by exchange, and Gift of Mrs. J. Rudolf Katz in memory of Dr. J. Rudolf Katz, by exchange
Accession Year
1996
Object Number
1996.146
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
In original cardboard box with printed paper tissue liner accompanied by a souvenir newspaper (Wiener Alte Neuigkeiten, Organ des "Concordia" Balles 1909).

Publication History

  • James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), p. 107, ill. (color)
  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 186

Exhibition History

  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions from the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Central and Northern Art and Design from 1880 to the Present, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 04/19/2000 - 07/09/2000
  • 32Q: 1440 Secessionism: Munich, Vienna, Berlin (Expressionism), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 05/06/2015

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

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