BR49.704: Color Exercise

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR49.704

People

Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, Australian (Frankfurt am Main, Germany 1893 - 1965 Sydney, Australia)

Title

Color Exercise

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1922

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/225115

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Collage of cut and painted papers on off-white wove paper

Technique

Collage

Dimensions

image: 44.3 × 33.5 cm (17 7/16 × 13 3/16 in.)
mount: 56.1 × 42.4 cm (22 1/16 × 16 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: in graphite at l.r.: Ludwig Mack; in gouache at l.l. of mount: L. Mack 1922
• inscription:
  recto, lower center, in black ink, in artist's hand:
  
  Weiss-Schwarz-Stufung = ergibt das Räumlich-näher bei Weiss, das Räumlich-Ferner bei Schawrz. Im Gegensatz hierzu (zur Raumbewegung) ist Gelb (als aggressiv, aus der Fläche/heraus-tretend) hinter das Schwarz gesetzt,—und Blau (als passiv, in die Tiefe führend) auf das eiß verworfen.
  
  Resultat: das Blau drückt das Weiss der grau Stufung zuruck und das gelbe Feld hebt das Schwarz heraus.
  
  
  
  
  English translation:
  
  White-Black Scale = show the spatial advance of white, the spatial recession of black. Contrary to this (the spatial movement) is yellow (as aggressive, advancing from the surface) put underneath black,—and blue (as passive, tending toward depth) covering the white. Result: The blue pushes the white of the greyscale back and the yellow field raises the black up.l.c., graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand
• inscription: recto, lower right, in pencil: Ludwig Mack
• inscription: recto, lower left, in pencil: 22
• inscription: recto, lower left, in red paint: L. Mack 1922

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Association Fund

Copyright

© Kaj Delugan

Accession Year

1949

Object Number

BR49.704

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• Bauhaus Art and Design, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 06/07/1982 - 10/30/1982
• The Bauhaus and Harvard, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/08/2019 - 07/28/2019

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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