BR74.17: Composition with Profile, from the portfolio "New European Graphics, Portfolio III: German Artists"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR74.17

People

Kurt Schwitters, German (Hanover, Germany 1887 - 1948 Kendal, England)

Title

Composition with Profile, from the portfolio "New European Graphics, Portfolio III: German Artists"

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Komposition mit Kopf im Profil, aus Bauhaus Mappe "Neue Europäische Graphik III: Deutsche Künstler"

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1921

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/222143

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Lithograph printed in black ink on tan wove paper

Technique

Lithograph

Dimensions

sheet: 38.6 x 28.1 cm (15 3/16 x 11 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: in graphite at l.r.: K. Schwitters
• blind stamp: l.l.: Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Wingler III/11

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mrs. Walter Gropius

Accession Year

1974

Object Number

BR74.17

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 393, p. 328, repr.

Exhibition History

• Prints in Weimar Germany: 1918-1933, Block Gallery, Evanston, 01/06/1994 - 03/13/1994; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, 04/08/1994 - 07/26/1994; University of Texas at Austin Art Museum, Austin, 09/09/1994 - 10/16/1994

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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