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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BRGA.24.90
People
Walter Gropius, German (Berlin, Germany 1883 - 1969 Boston, Mass., USA)
Title
Total Theater for Erwin Piscator, Berlin, 1927: Isometric Drawing
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1927
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221011

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink, gouache and spatter paint on composition board
Dimensions
82.8 x 108.4 cm (32 5/8 x 42 11/16 in.)
frame: 95.4 x 123.3 x 3.2 cm (37 9/16 x 48 9/16 x 1 1/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Walter Gropius
Object Number
BRGA.24.90
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 372, p. 273, color repr. p. 272
  • Bauhaus Saxony, exh. cat., Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst Leipzig (Leipzig, 2019), pp. 129-130, fig. 72, ill. (color)
  • Claudia Quiring and Hans-Georg Lippert, ed., Dresdner Moderne 1919-1933: Neue Ideen für Stadt, Architektur und Menschen, exh. cat., Sandstein Verlag (Dresden, 2019), pp. 63-64, fig. 7, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Walter Gropius' Total Theater Design of 1927: "A Variable Theater-Instrument", Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge
  • Modernism: Designing a New World, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 04/06/2006 - 07/23/2006; MARTa Herford, Herford, 09/16/2006 - 01/07/2007
  • Modell Bauhaus, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin-Kreuzberg, 07/22/2009 - 10/04/2009
  • Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 11/08/2009 - 01/25/2010

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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