- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- BR49.669
- People
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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
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- Medium
- Cotton, wool, and linen fibers
- Dimensions
- 262.9 x 188 cm (103 1/2 x 74 in.)
- Provenance
- Gunta Stölzl, sold; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1949.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- 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
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- Publication History
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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, Museum of Modern Art, New York (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
- Exhibition History
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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, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 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
- Subjects and Contexts
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The Bauhaus
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