BR56.264: Color study #6 for stage production "Kindsterben", from the portfolio "New European Graphics, Portfolio I: Masters of the State Bauhaus in Weimar"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR56.264

People

Lothar Schreyer, German (Blasewitz/Dresden, Germany 1886 - 1966 Hamburg, Germany)

Title

Color study #6 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 6 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/223542

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and gouache over lithograph printed in black ink on tan wove paper

Technique

Lithograph

Dimensions

sheet: 45.2 x 30.3 cm (17 13/16 x 11 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: in graphite at l.r.: Lothar Schreyer / 1921
• blind stamp: l.l.: Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition

AP VIII/XX

Standard Reference Number

Wingler I/13

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1956

Object Number

BR56.264

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
• 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

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