- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- BRGA.22.8
- People
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Alfred Arndt, German (Elbing 1898 - 1976 Darmstadt)
Architect: Walter Gropius, German (Berlin, Germany 1883 - 1969 Boston, Mass., USA)
- Title
- Housing Development, Dessau-Törten, exterior color scheme, building type 1, isometric
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1926
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/220954
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Opaque watercolor, black and brown inks brushed and spattered on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 88.8 x 107.3 cm (34 15/16 x 42 1/4 in.)
- Provenance
- Walter Gropius (1922-1969) gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Walter Gropius
- Copyright
- © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Object Number
- BRGA.22.8
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Bauhaus: Dessau, Chicago, New York, exh. cat., DuMont (Cologne, Germany, 2000), no. 64
Leah Dickerman and Barry Bergdoll, Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, exh. cat., ed. David Frankel, Museum of Modern Art, New York (New York, 2009), cat. no. 311, p. 234, color repr.
Andreas Schwarting, Die Siedlung Dessau-Torten: Rationalitat als asthetisches Programm, Thelem (Dresden, Germany, 2010), p. 28, fig. 9, ill.
Kathleen James-Chakraborty and Eva Forgas, Bauhaus: Art as Life, exh. cat., Barbican Art Gallery and Koenig Books Ltd (London, 2012), p. 218, fig. 197, ill.
L'Esprit du Bauhaus, exh. cat., Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris and Foundation d'entreprise Hermès (Paris, 2016), p. 217, fig. 11, ill. (color)
Morgan Ridler, "The Bauhaus Wall-Painting Workshop: Mural Painting to Wallpapering, Art to Product" (2016), p. 229-280
- Exhibition History
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Visions Urbaines, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 06/24/1996 - 09/16/1996
Bauhaus: Dessau-Chicago-New York, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, 08/12/2000 - 11/12/2000
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 11/08/2009 - 01/25/2010
Bauhaus: Art as Life, Barbican Centre, London, 05/03/2012 - 08/12/2012
32Q: 1520 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Interwar and Bauhaus), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/2016 - 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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