Incorrect Username, Email, or Password
This object does not yet have a description.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR49.669
People
Gunta Stölzl, Swiss (Munich, Germany 1897 - 1983 Zurich, Switzerland)
Title
Tapestry
Classification
Textile Arts
Work Type
textile
Date
1922-1923
Culture
Swiss
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/225534

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Cotton, wool, and linen fibers
Dimensions
262.9 x 188 cm (103 1/2 x 74 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gunta Stölzl, sold; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1949.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Association Fund
Copyright
© Stölzl Estate, https://www.guntastolzl.org/, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
BR49.669
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Publication History

  • Magdalena Droste, ed., Gunta Stölzl, Weberei am Bauhaus und aus eigener Werkstatt, exh. cat., Kupfergraben (Berlin, 1987), cat. no. 41, color illus. p. 51
  • Peter Nisbet and Emilie Norris, Busch-Reisinger Museum: History and Holdings, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1991), p. 80, ill.
  • Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, ed., Gunta Stölzl : Meisterin am Bauhaus Dessau : Textilien, Textilentwürfe und freie Arbeiten 1915-1983, exh. cat., Verlag Gerd Hatje, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau (Ostfildern-Ruit, 1997), cat. no. 74, color illus. p. 74
  • Leah Dickerman and Barry Bergdoll, Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, exh. cat., ed. David Frankel, The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2009), cat. no. 115, p. 114, color repr.
  • H. Harvard Arnason and Elizabeth Mansfield, History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography, Pearson Education, Inc. (Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2013), repr. as ifg. 13.17 on p. 288
  • Laura Muir, Object Lessons: The Bauhaus and Harvard, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), p. 241, plate 7, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu