1996.317: "Abstract Revue" of Moving Surfaces (Mechanical Theater)
DrawingsA design for a stage set is rendered in mechanical lines in gray or black, with geometric colored shapes. Gray shading indicates a stage floor receding back and on either side there are rows of four upright panels that recede back as well. These are each connected by horizontal panels going across at the top. Groups of concentric circles, each with different colored rings in blue or yellow or red appear in various places around the stage and among the panels at the sides. Similarly colored rectangles appear behind and in front of, and around these circles.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1996.317
- People
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Andor Weininger, American (Karancs, Hungary 1899 - 1986 New York, N.Y., USA)
- Title
- "Abstract Revue" of Moving Surfaces (Mechanical Theater)
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Mechanisches Theater; Design for "Abstrakte Revue" der Bewegten Flächen
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1926-1928
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/218223
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Graphite, watercolor, and black ink on thin cream card
- Dimensions
- 18.1 x 23.9 cm (7 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: in black ink, l.l.: A. Weininger
- inscription: l.l., black ink, in artist's hand: A. Weininger / 1926+28 Dessau / Idee: 1923+- / Weimar.
- inscription: lower margin, black ink, in artist's hand: "Abstrakte Revue" - der bewegten Flächen. - (Mechanisches theater) [etc.]
- inscription: verso, black ink, graphite, colored pencil, in artist's hand: calculations and sketches
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Eva Weininger
- Copyright
- © Estate of Andor Weininger / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Accession Year
- 1996
- Object Number
- 1996.317
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Timothy O. Benson, ed., Central European Avant-gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art and MIT Press (Los Angeles and Cambridge, MA, 2002), p. 225 (color illus.), 412
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: 1520 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Interwar and Bauhaus), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/01/2018 - 12/10/2018
Subjects and Contexts
- The Bauhaus
Verification Level
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