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Identification and Creation
Object Number
BR55.66
People
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
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
  • label: not attached, blue ink, printed, German: WW
    Wiener Werkstaette
    Entwurf: Kolo Moser
    Marke: Bergfalter 3 S/1
    Breite: 90 Preis: 8.70
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
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
Description
mounted with BR55.67 and BR55.68
green ink
Publication History

Angela Völker, Die Stoffe der Wiener Werkstätte 1910-1932, Christian Brandstätter Verlag (Vienna, Austria, 1990), no. 718

Exhibition History

Art of the Weimar Era, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 04/05/1982 - 05/22/1982

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