Do you want your own home? | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: BR58.156
People: László Moholy-Nagy, American (Bacsborsod, Hungary 1895 - 1946 Chicago, Ill., USA)
Title: Do you want your own home?
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Wollen Sie ein eigenes Heim?
Classification: Books
Work Type: book
Date: 1930
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/220016

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Offset lithograph printed in black and red inks on card; black and orange inks on coated wove paper, stapled
Technique: Photolithograph
Dimensions: folded sheet: 21 x 15 cm (8 1/4 x 5 7/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Lydia Dorner
Accession Year: 1958
Object Number: BR58.156
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

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. 106
Peter Schjeldahl, The Future Looked Bright: A Moholy-Nagy Retrospective, The New Yorker (New York, June 6 & 13, 2016), Vol. 92, No. 17, pp. 104-105

Exhibition History

From Werkbund to Bauhaus: Art and Design in Germany 1900-1934, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1980 - 04/26/1980

Subjects and Contexts

The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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BR58.156: Do you want your own home?