BRGA.20.12: Bauhaus Building, Dessau, 1925-1926: View from the northwest

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BRGA.20.12

People

Lucia Moholy, British (Prague, Czech Republic 1894 - 1989 Zurich, Switzerland)
Architect: Walter Gropius, German (Berlin, Germany 1883 - 1969 Boston, Mass., USA)

Title

Bauhaus Building, Dessau, 1925-1926: View from the northwest

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

c. 1926, printed later

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/220927

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Photomechanical print

Technique

Photomechanical print

Dimensions

image, sight: 54 x 89 cm (21 1/4 x 35 1/16 in.)
sheet: 57 x 90.9 cm (22 7/16 x 35 13/16 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Sachsse 136

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

Object Number

BRGA.20.12

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Peter Gössel, ed., Architecture in the Twentieth Century, Tashen (Köln, 2001), p. 146, b/w illus.
• Joyce Tsai, László Moholy-Nagy: Painting after Photography, University of California Press (Oakland, CA, 2018), pp. 75-76, fig. 2.16, ill.

Exhibition History

• At the End of the Century: One Hundred Years of Architecture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 07/10/1998 - 09/06/1998; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, 11/24/1999 - 03/12/2000; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 04/16/2000 - 09/24/2000

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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