BR50.122: Liqueur Pitcher and Ashtray (MT 35)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR50.122

People

Lucia Moholy, British (Prague, Czech Republic 1894 - 1989 Zurich, Switzerland)
Designer (pitcher): Wolfgang Rössger, German (Leipzig, Germany 1909 - 1987 Berlin, Germany)
Designer (pitcher): Friedrich Marby, German (Hanover, Germany 1905 - 1984 Hanover, Germany)
Designer (ashtray): Marianne Brandt, German (Chemnitz, Germany 1893 - 1983 Kirchberg, Germany)

Title

Liqueur Pitcher and Ashtray (MT 35)

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

1924, printed c. 1950

Period

Modern

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/220775

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Modern gelatin silver print

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 11.8 x 16.4 cm (4 5/8 x 6 7/16 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Sachsse 274

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Walter Gropius

Copyright

© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Accession Year

1950

Object Number

BR50.122

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

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

Publication History

• Rolf Sachsse and Sabine Hartmann, Lucia Moholy: Bauhaus Fotografin, Bauhaus-Archiv (Berlin, Germany, 1995), no. 274
• Alice Rawsthorn, "Design Touches Everything", Aperture (New York, 2024), No. 255, pp. 88-95, p. 95, ill.

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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