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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR50.446
People
László Moholy-Nagy, American (Bacsborsod, Hungary 1895 - 1946 Chicago, Ill., USA)
Author: Walter Gropius, German (Berlin, Germany 1883 - 1969 Boston, Mass., USA)
Title
Bauhaus Books No. 12: Bauhaus Buildings, Dessau
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Bauhaus Bücher 12: Walter Gropius: "Bauhausbauten Dessau"
Classification
Books
Work Type
book
Date
1930
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/218040

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Relief halftone and letterpress on tracing paper
Technique
Photomechanical print
Dimensions
23 x 18 x 1.4 cm (9 1/16 x 7 1/16 x 9/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase
Accession Year
1950
Object Number
BR50.446
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Laura Muir, Lyonel Feininger: Photographs, 1928-1939, exh. cat. (Ostfildern, Germany, 2011), p. 24, fig. 10, ill.
  • Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund, Walter Gropius: An Illustrated Biography, Phaidon Press (London and New York, 2022), p. 106, fig. 35, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Bauhaus Art and Design, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 06/07/1982 - 10/30/1982
  • Lyonel Feininger: Photographs, 1928-1939, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, 02/26/2011 - 05/15/2011; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munchen, 06/02/2011 - 07/17/2011; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 10/25/2011 - 03/11/2012; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/30/2012 - 06/02/2012
  • 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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