BR56.254: Dictum, from the portfolio "New European Graphics, Portfolio I: Masters of the State Bauhaus in Weimar"
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- BR56.254
- People
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Johannes Itten, Swiss (Süderen-Linden, Switzerland 1888 - 1967 Zurich, Switzerland)
- Title
- Dictum, from the portfolio "New European Graphics, Portfolio I: Masters of the State Bauhaus in Weimar"
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Spruch, aus Bauhaus Mappe "Neue Europäische Graphik, Erste Mappe: Meister d. Staatlichen Bauhauses in Weimar"
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1921
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/223481
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Lithograph printed in colored and black inks on off-white card
- Technique
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- sheet: 35.1 x 24.8 cm (13 13/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: in graphite at l.r.: Itten
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Edition
- AP VIII/XX
- Standard Reference Number
- Wingler I/3
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Julia Feininger
- Accession Year
- 1956
- Object Number
- BR56.254
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), p. 121, repr.
- Peter Nisbet and Emilie Norris, Busch-Reisinger Museum: History and Holdings, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1991), p. 83, ill.
- Magdalena Droste, Bauhaus 1919-1933, Taschen and Bauhaus-Archiv (Cologne, 2019), pp. 42-43, ill. (color)
Exhibition History
- Bauhaus Art and Design, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 06/07/1982 - 10/30/1982
- A Tribute to Walter Gropius, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 05/16/1983 - 07/01/1983
- The Graphic Legacy of Paul Klee, Blum Art Institute, New York, 10/24/1983 - 12/27/1983
- 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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