BR49.728: Composition

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR49.728

People

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

Title

Composition

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1922

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/225158

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper, mounted to off-white card

Dimensions

21.1 x 25.7 cm (8 5/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
mount: 32.4 x 39.1 cm (12 3/4 x 15 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: in graphite at l.r. of mount: Ludwig Mack
• inscription: on verso at u.r., watercolor, handwritten, in artist's hand: L. Mack / 1922
• inscription: u.r., graphite, handwritten: 36 (circled)
• inscription: l.l., graphite, handwritten: 14 1/4 x 19 1/2
• inscription: l.c., graphite, handwritten: 1922
• inscription: l.c., graphite, handwritten: 8 5/8"

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Association Fund

Copyright

© Kaj Delugan

Accession Year

1949

Object Number

BR49.728

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• John David Farmer and Geraldine Weiss, ed., Concepts of the Bauhaus: The Busch-Reisinger Museum Collection, exh. cat. (1971), cat. no. 4

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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