BR50.32.B: Untitled [Decorations for the Metal Party at the Bauhaus, Dessau, February 9, 1929]

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR50.32.B

People

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

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

• 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

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

Permissions

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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. 118

Exhibition History

• 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

• The Bauhaus

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