- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- BR48.104
- People
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Herbert Bayer, American (Haag, Austria 1900 - 1985 Santa Barbara, CA)
- Title
- Design for a Bauhaus Exhibition Poster
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1923
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/225332
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Opaque watercolor and black ink over graphite on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 43.6 x 31.9 cm (17 3/16 x 12 9/16 in.)
frame: 57.5 x 43.5 x 2.5 cm (22 5/8 x 17 1/8 x 1 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- label: On verso: Museum of Modern Art Loan A.38.2001
- label: On verso: Design for billboard poster Herbert Bayer 1923 1448.104
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of the artist
- Copyright
- © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Accession Year
- 1948
- Object Number
- BR48.104
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Jeannine Fiedler, ed., Bauhaus, Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft (Cologne, Germany, 2000), p. 490-491
Leah Dickerman and Barry Bergdoll, Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, exh. cat., ed. David Frankel, Museum of Modern Art, New York (New York, 2009), cat. no. 193, p. 152, color repr.
- Exhibition History
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Bauhaus Art and Design, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 06/07/1982 - 10/30/1982
A Tribute to Walter Gropius, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 05/16/1983 - 07/01/1983
Modell Bauhaus, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin-Kreuzberg, 07/22/2009 - 10/04/2009
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 11/08/2009 - 01/25/2010
The Bauhaus and Harvard, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/08/2019 - 07/28/2019
- Subjects and Contexts
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The Bauhaus
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