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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BRGA.21.3
People
Walter Gropius, German (Berlin, Germany 1883 - 1969 Boston, Mass., USA)
Title
Bauhaus Masters' Housing, Dessau, 1925-1926: Isometric
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1925-1926
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/220904

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and opaque watercolor with traces of graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
38 x 90.7 cm (14 15/16 x 35 11/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Walter Gropius
Object Number
BRGA.21.3
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Bauhaus: Dessau, Chicago, New York, exh. cat., DuMont (Cologne, Germany, 2000), no. 67
  • Leah Dickerman and Barry Bergdoll, Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, exh. cat., ed. David Frankel, The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2009), cat. no. 236, p. 188, color repr.
  • Magdalena Droste, Bauhaus 1919-1933, Taschen and Bauhaus-Archiv (Cologne, 2019), p. 203. ill. (b/w)
  • Magdalena Droste, Bauhaus 1919-1933 (mini version), Taschen and Bauhaus-Archiv (Cologne, 2019), p. 266, ill. (b/w)

Exhibition History

  • Deutsche Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus dem Busch-Reisinger Museum, Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, 10/23/1982 - 01/16/1983; Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin 30, 02/10/1983 - 04/17/1983; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 05/08/1983 - 06/26/1983
  • Bauhaus Utopien, Magyar Nemzeti Galeria, 03/09/1988 - 04/20/1988; Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 05/07/1988 - 06/26/1988; Kunstverein Köln, Cologne, 07/15/1988 - 09/04/1988
  • Bauhaus: Dessau-Chicago-New York, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, 08/12/2000 - 11/12/2000
  • Bauhaus Modern, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 09/26/2008 - 12/17/2008
  • Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 11/08/2009 - 01/25/2010
  • The Bauhaus and Harvard, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/08/2019 - 07/28/2019

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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