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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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