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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR56.265
People
Lothar Schreyer, German (Blasewitz/Dresden, Germany 1886 - 1966 Hamburg, Germany)
Title
Color study #2 for stage production "Kindsterben", from the portfolio "New European Graphics, Portfolio I: Masters of the State Bauhaus in Weimar"
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Farbform 2 aus Bühnenwerk "Kindsterben", 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/223483

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and gouache over lithograph printed in black ink on tan wove paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 45.2 x 30 cm (17 13/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite at l.r.: Lothar Schreyer / 1921
  • blind stamp: l.r.: Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
AP VIII/XX
Standard Reference Number
Wingler I/14

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Julia Feininger
Accession Year
1956
Object Number
BR56.265
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), p. 120, repr.

Exhibition History

  • From Werkbund to Bauhaus: Art and Design in Germany 1900-1934, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1980 - 04/26/1980
  • 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
  • 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

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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