BRGA.22.6: Housing Development, Dessau-Törten, interior color scheme, building type 4, isometric from below

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BRGA.22.6

People

Werner Jackson (b. Isaacsohn), German (Holzminden, Germany 1904 - 1984 Oxford, England)
Walter Gropius, German (Berlin, Germany 1883 - 1969 Boston, Mass., USA)

Title

Housing Development, Dessau-Törten, interior color scheme, building type 4, isometric from below

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1928

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/220905

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gouache, black ink, graphite, and typewritten collage element on tan wove paper

Dimensions

41.7 x 59.1 cm (16 7/16 x 23 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: in black ink at l.r.: W. Isaacsohn.
• label: l.r., black ink, typewritten, German: stadtsiedlung tUorten 4
  blatt 1 farbplan ansicht
• stamp: l.r., purple ink, German: BAUHAUS IN DESSAU.
• inscription: l.r., graphite: Manschinsky [?] illegible

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Copyright

© Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin

Object Number

BRGA.22.6

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Andreas Schwarting, Die Siedlung Dessau-Torten: Rationalitat als asthetisches Programm, Thelem (Dresden, Germany, 2010), p. 156, fig. 132, ill.
• Morgan Ridler, "The Bauhaus Wall-Painting Workshop: Mural Painting to Wallpapering, Art to Product" (2016), p. 229-280

Exhibition History

• 32Q: 1520 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Interwar and Bauhaus), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/2016 - 08/10/2016

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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