- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- BR55.66
- People
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Koloman Moser, Austrian (Vienna, Austria 1868 - 1918 Vienna, Austria)
Manufactured by Wiener Werkstätte (1903 - 1932)
- Title
- Mountain Butterfly
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Bergfalter
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- textile
- Date
- 1910-1911
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Austria, Vienna
- Culture
- Austrian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/223762
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Ink on silk
- Technique
- Relief print
- Dimensions
- 17.6 x 9.9 cm (6 15/16 x 3 7/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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label: not attached, blue ink, printed, German: WW
Wiener Werkstaette
Entwurf: Kolo Moser
Marke: Bergfalter 3 S/1
Breite: 90 Preis: 8.70
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label: not attached, blue ink, printed, German: WW
- Provenance
- 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
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Accession Year
- 1955
- Object Number
- BR55.66
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- mounted with BR55.67 and BR55.68
green ink
- Publication History
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Angela Völker, Die Stoffe der Wiener Werkstätte 1910-1932, Christian Brandstätter Verlag (Vienna, Austria, 1990), no. 718
- Exhibition History
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Art of the Weimar Era, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 04/05/1982 - 05/22/1982
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