BR54.125: Nude

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR54.125

People

Johannes Itten, Swiss (Süderen-Linden, Switzerland 1888 - 1967 Zurich, Switzerland)

Title

Nude

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Akt

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1916

Culture

Swiss

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/223357

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Charcoal on tan wove paper

Dimensions

45.3 x 31.8 cm (17 13/16 x 12 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: in graphite at l.r.: Johannes Itten
• inscription: l.l., graphite, handwritten, German, in artist's hand: L. Feininger zur Freund. Erinnerung
• inscription: l.c., graphite, handwritten, German, in artist's hand: März 1923

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lyonel Feininger

Accession Year

1954

Object Number

BR54.125

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• 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. 145

Exhibition History

• German Art of the Twenties, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/26/1981 - 04/11/1981
• Art of the Weimar Era, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 04/05/1982 - 05/22/1982
• A Tribute to Walter Gropius, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 05/16/1983 - 07/01/1983
• The Bauhaus and Harvard, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/08/2019 - 07/28/2019

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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