BR49.669: Tapestry

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

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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

• The Bauhaus Workshops: 1919-1933, American Craft Museum, New York, 06/29/1994 - 09/12/1994
• Gunta Stözl, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Dessau, 08/31/1997 - 01/04/1998
• Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 11/08/2009 - 01/25/2010
• 32Q: 1520 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Interwar and Bauhaus), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 05/06/2015
• The Bauhaus and Harvard, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/08/2019 - 07/28/2019
• Artisanal Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/28/2023 - 05/07/2023

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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