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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR50.71
People
Lucia Moholy, British (Prague, Czech Republic 1894 - 1989 Zurich, Switzerland)
(sculpture) Irmgard Sörensen-Popitz, German (Kiel, Germany 1896 - 1993)
Title
Student Exercise from László Moholy-Nagy's Bauhaus Preliminary Course (1924)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1924, printed c. 1950
Period
Modern
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/220386

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Modern gelatin silver print
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
18.4 × 13.1 cm (7 1/4 × 5 3/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Walter Gropius
Accession Year
1950
Object Number
BR50.71
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Printed by Busch-Reisinger Museum ca. 1950 from original glass-plate negative.

Publication History

  • Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, The Bauhaus: An Introductory Survey (Croydon, Australia, 1963), p. 18, ill. (b/w)
  • Laura Muir, Object Lessons: The Bauhaus and Harvard, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), p. 237, plate 3, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

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