Water Lily | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: BR55.74
People: Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill, Austrian (Vienna 1882 - 1961 Vienna)
Manufactured by Wiener Werkstätte (1903 - 1932)
Title: Water Lily
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Seerose
Classification: Textile Arts
Work Type: textile
Date: 1910-1912
Places: Creation Place: Europe, Austria, Vienna
Culture: Austrian
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/223739

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Ink on silk

Technique

Relief print

Dimensions

10.3 x 14.3 cm (4 1/16 x 5 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

label: not attached, blue ink, printed, German: Entwurf: Arch. Ed. Wimmer
Marke: Seerose 3 S/1
Breite: 90 Preis: 9.30

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: BR55.74
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: mounted with BR55.75
brown ink

Publication History

Angela Völker, Die Stoffe der Wiener Werkstätte 1910-1932, Christian Brandstätter Verlag (Vienna, Austria, 1990), no. 1241

Verification Level

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BR55.74: Water Lily