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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR49.18
People
Josef Albers, American (Bottrop, Germany 1888 - 1976 New Haven, Conn.)
Title
Portrait of El Lissitzky
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1928
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/225693

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 22.3 x 14.9 cm (8 3/4 x 5 7/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Josef Albers
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
BR49.18
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Josef Albers, Josef Albers: Photographien, 1928-1955, exh. cat., ed. Marieanne Stockebrand, Kölnischer Kunstverein and Schirmer Mosel (Munich, Germany, 1992), pl. 12 (left image)
  • Josef Albers and Karen Haas, Josef Albers in Black and White, exh. cat., Boston University Art Galleries (Boston, MA, 2000), pl. 11 (left image)

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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