- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- BR50.32.B
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Untitled [Decorations for the Metal Party at the Bauhaus, Dessau, February 9, 1929]
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1929
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/220782
- Physical Descriptions
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- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- image: 8.2 x 11 cm (3 1/4 x 4 5/16 in.)
sheet: 8.8 x 11.5 cm (3 7/16 x 4 1/2 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: print verso, u.c., black ink, English: Metallfest ("Metal party") // at Bauhaus in 1928 or 1929. // "Christmas tree" balls // hanging from beams in one of the corridors. // Photo by ________ Ludwig, // a Bauhaus student
- stamp: print verso, l.r., red ink: DEARSTYNE
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Howard Dearstyne
- Accession Year
- 1950
- Object Number
- BR50.32.B
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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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. 118
- Exhibition History
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32Q: 1520 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Interwar and Bauhaus), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/04/2016 - 08/10/2016
The Bauhaus and Harvard, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/08/2019 - 07/28/2019
- Subjects and Contexts
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The Bauhaus
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