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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR49.198
People
Lyonel Feininger, American (New York, NY 1871 - 1956 New York, NY)
Title
Preliminary design for the Program of the State Bauhaus in Weimar
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Programm des Staatlichen Bauhauses in Weimar
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1919
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/219959

Location

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

Medium
Woodcut with letterpress on brown paper
Technique
Woodcut and letterpress
Dimensions
31.9 x 39.4 cm (12 9/16 x 15 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower margin in black ink: Lyonel Feininger
  • (not assigned): l.r. in black ink: I. Fassung d. Titels // seltener Probedruk // vielmals verwendet
  • (not assigned): signed lower margin, in black ink: Lyonel Feininger

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
I
Standard Reference Number
Prasse W 144

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Julia Feininger
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
BR49.198
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Title page of the four-page announcement, "Programm des Staatlichen Bauhauses in Weimar," April 1919.

Publication History

  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 391, p. 327, repr.
  • Peter Nisbet and Emilie Norris, Busch-Reisinger Museum: History and Holdings, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1991), p. 86, ill.
  • 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. 141 (cover)
  • Leah Dickerman and Barry Bergdoll, Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, exh. cat., ed. David Frankel, The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2009), cat. no. 41, p. 67, color repr.
  • Laura Muir, Object Lessons: The Bauhaus and Harvard, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), p. 235, plate 1, ill. (color)
  • Ingrid Pfeiffer, ed., Lyonel Feininger: Retrospective, exh. cat., Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and Hirmer Verlag (Frankfurt and Munich, 2023), pp. 84-85, fig. 4, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • From Werkbund to Bauhaus: Art and Design in Germany 1900-1934, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1980 - 04/26/1980
  • Cubism: Explorations and Adaptations, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 09/18/1982 - 10/26/1982
  • Bauhaus Modern, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 09/26/2008 - 12/17/2008
  • Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 11/08/2009 - 01/25/2010
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2024 - 01/05/2025
  • 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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