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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR48.93
People
Herbert Bayer, American (Haag, Austria 1900 - 1985 Santa Barbara, CA)
Title
Research in the development of Universal Type
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1925
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/225747

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on paper
Dimensions
29.8 x 60 cm (11 3/4 x 23 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Herbert Bayer (1925-1948) gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum.

Acquisition and Rights

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
BR48.93
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 257, p. 200, color repr. p. 201
  • Kathleen James-Chakraborty and Eva Forgas, Bauhaus: Art as Life, exh. cat., Barbican Art Gallery and Koenig Books Ltd (London, 2012), p. 124, fig. 114, ill.
  • Ansgar Steinhausen, "Bauhaus Serie Teil 4 Herbert Bayer: Tapeten, Typo, Tafelbilder", Häuser, Gruner + Jahr GmbH (Hamburg, 2019), No. 3, pp. 76-81, p. 79. ill. (b/w)

Exhibition History

  • Art of the Weimar Era, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 04/05/1982 - 05/22/1982
  • 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
  • Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 11/08/2009 - 01/25/2010
  • Bauhaus: Art as Life, Barbican Centre, London, 05/03/2012 - 08/12/2012
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/17/2017 - 05/08/2017

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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