BR55.45: Bee

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR55.45

People

Josef Hoffmann, Austrian (Pirnitz, Moravia (now Brtnice, Czech Republic) 1870 - 1956 Vienna, Austria)
Manufactured by Wiener Werkstätte (1903 - 1932)

Title

Bee

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Biene

Classification

Textile Arts

Work Type

textile

Date

1910-1911

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Austria, Vienna

Culture

Austrian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/223687

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Ink on silk

Technique

Relief print

Dimensions

irregular: 17.7 x 11.9 cm (6 15/16 x 4 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: not attached, blue ink, printed, German: WW
  Wiener Werkstaette
  Entwurf: Prof. J. Hoffmann
  Marke: Biene 1 V/1
  Breite: 75 Preis: 5.80 (crossed out; 5.60 written in black ink)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Rudolph Rosenthal, 1914, Sold to Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1954.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchased from Rudolph Rosenthal, 1954, Gift to HUAM, 1955. Given to the BRM in exchange for 50 early 20th-century German textiles

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Accession Year

1955

Object Number

BR55.45

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

mounted with BR55.44 and BR55.50
pink, blue, black, and green inks

Publication History

• Angela Völker, Die Stoffe der Wiener Werkstätte 1910-1932, Christian Brandstätter Verlag (Vienna, Austria, 1990), no. 290

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