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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR50.45
People
Howard Dearstyne, American (Albany, N.Y., USA 1903 - 1979 Alexandria, Va., USA)
Sculpture: ? Willy Haas, German? (active c. 1928)
Title
Student Exercise, Dessau Bauhaus
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1928-1929
Period
Modern
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/225098

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 10.7 × 15.3 cm (4 3/16 × 6 in.)
sheet: 11.5 × 16.3 cm (4 1/2 × 6 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, u.c., black ink: 4 views of a piece of metal "sculpture" work / by _____ Haas, Bauhaus student, in the Vorkurs / (materials study course) of Josef Albers, / in 1928 or 1929.
  • stamp: verso, lower right, in red ink: Dearstyne
  • inscription: verso, center, in pencil: Arbeit von Haas

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Howard Dearstyne
Copyright
© Estate of Howard Dearstyne
Accession Year
1950
Object Number
BR50.45
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Photograph by Howard Dearstyne of four views of a single metal sculpture by an unidentified Bauhaus student with the last name of Haas in Josef Albers's materials study course in 1928 or 1929.

Exhibition History

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