BR56.260: Animal's Head, from the portfolio "New European Graphics, Portfolio I: Masters of the State Bauhaus in Weimar"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR56.260

People

Georg Muche, German (Querfurt, Germany 1895 - 1987 Lindau, Germany)

Title

Animal's Head, from the portfolio "New European Graphics, Portfolio I: Masters of the State Bauhaus in Weimar"

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Tierkopf, aus Bauhaus Mappe "Neue Europäische Graphik, Erste Mappe: Meister d. Staatlichen Bauhauses in Weimar"

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1921

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/223482

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching printed in black ink on off-white wove paper

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

plate: 14.9 x 10.2 cm (5 7/8 x 4 in.)
sheet: 29.9 x 20 cm (11 3/4 x 7 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: in graphite at l.l.: G Muche
• blind stamp: l.l.: Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition

AP VIII/XX

Standard Reference Number

Wingler I/9

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Julia Feininger

Copyright

© Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin

Accession Year

1956

Object Number

BR56.260

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• Bauhaus Art and Design, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 06/07/1982 - 10/30/1982
• The Graphic Legacy of Paul Klee, Blum Art Institute, New York, 10/24/1983 - 12/27/1983

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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