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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR52.86
People
Otti Berger, Yugoslav (Zmajevac, Hungary (present day Croatia) 1898 - 1944 Auschwitz, Poland)
Title
Sample of Upholstery for Tubular Furniture
Other Titles
Former Title: Upholstery Sample
Classification
Textile Arts
Work Type
textile
Date
1932-1937
Culture
Croatian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/224259

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Double weave of cotton and plastic fibers
Technique
Woven
Dimensions
32.7 x 72 cm (12 7/8 x 28 3/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Ludwig Hilberseimer
Accession Year
1952
Object Number
BR52.86
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Weft: Cotton in beige and black; plastic in black and clear.
Warp: Cotton in black, aqua, blie, beige, red, yellow, and pink

Publication History

  • Lynne Cooke, Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art and The University of Chicago Press (Washington, Chicago and London, 2023), pp. 229-230, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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