BR70.18: Study for a Poster for the Kabarett Fledermaus

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR70.18

People

Bertold Löffler, Austrian (Nieder-Rosenthal, Austria 1874 - 1960 Vienna, Austria)

Title

Study for a Poster for the Kabarett Fledermaus

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1907-1908

Culture

Austrian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/222558

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

46.9 x 12.6 cm

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase in memory of Eda K. Loeb

Accession Year

1970

Object Number

BR70.18

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Peter Nisbet and Emilie Norris, Busch-Reisinger Museum: History and Holdings, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1991), p. 75, ill.
• Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 183

Exhibition History

• Austrian Art between 1890 & World War I, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, 04/14/1977 - 05/22/1977
• Dream and Design: Turn-of-the-Century Art in Vienna and Central Europe, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/07/1992 - 05/03/1992
• “As though my body were naught but ciphers”: Crises of Representation in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 02/12/2005 - 06/12/2005

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