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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BRGA.24.100
People
Unidentified Artist
Architect: Walter Gropius, German (Berlin, Germany 1883 - 1969 Boston, Mass., USA)
Title
Total Theater for Erwin Piscator, Berlin, 1927: Perspective
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1927
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221012

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, gray wash, opaque watercolor, brushed and spattered on cream wove paper mounted to paper board
Dimensions
image: 27.6 × 44.5 cm (10 7/8 × 17 1/2 in.)
sheet: 69 × 95.7 cm (27 3/16 × 37 11/16 in.)
frame: 73.2 × 100.2 × 3.2 cm (28 13/16 × 39 7/16 × 1 1/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Walter Gropius
Object Number
BRGA.24.100
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jeannine Fiedler, ed., Bauhaus, Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft (Cologne, Germany, 2000), p. 540
  • Bauhaus: Dessau, Chicago, New York, exh. cat., DuMont (Cologne, Germany, 2000), no. 76
  • Eva Bajkay, Die Ungarn am Bauhaus, exh. cat., Bauhaus-Archiv (Berlin, Germany, 2010), pp. 272-273, fig. 313, ill.
  • Lilly Dubowitz, In Search of a Forgotten Architect, AA Files (London, 2010), 61, 3-17
  • Stefan Jonsson, Masse und Demokratie: Zwischen Revolution und Faschismus, Wallstein Verlag (Gottingen, Germany, 2015), p. 294, fig. 4.15, ill. (b/w)
  • Claudia Quiring and Hans-Georg Lippert, ed., Dresdner Moderne 1919-1933: Neue Ideen für Stadt, Architektur und Menschen, exh. cat., Sandstein Verlag (Dresden, 2019), p. 64, fig. 8, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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