BR48.51.B: Photograph of Silk Curtains for "Theatercafé, Dessau" by Anni Albers

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR48.51.B

People

Unidentified Artist
Textile: Anni Albers, American (Berlin 1899 - 1994 Orange, Conn.)

Title

Photograph of Silk Curtains for "Theatercafé, Dessau" by Anni Albers

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph, documentary

Date

c. 1928

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/221091

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gelatin silver print mounted to off-white wove paper

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

9.2 x 17.2 cm (3 5/8 x 6 3/4 in.)
mount: 17 x 30.5 cm (6 11/16 x 12 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Anni Albers (c. 1928-1948), gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1948.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Anni Albers

Copyright

© The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Accession Year

1948

Object Number

BR48.51.B

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Ann Coxon, Briony Fer, and Maria Müller-Schareck, ed., Anni Albers, exh. cat., Tate Publishing (London, 2018), p. 183

Exhibition History

• Anni Albers, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, 06/09/2018 - 09/09/2018; Tate Modern, London, 10/11/2018 - 01/27/2019

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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