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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR48.102
People
Herbert Bayer, American (Haag, Austria 1900 - 1985 Santa Barbara, CA)
Title
The Model Bauhaus Man
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Der Muster-Bauhäusler
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1923
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/225752

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Opaque and transparent watercolor, black ink, and graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
55.2 x 51.6 cm (21 3/4 x 20 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in black ink on verso at l.r.: herbert bayer
  • inscription: on verso at l.r., black ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: plakat anlässlich eines // bauhaus-tanzabend in Weimar // 1923-24
  • label: on verso at l.r., black ink, typewritten: PARODY OF BAUHAUSMAN / herbert bayer - 1923
  • label: on verso at l.r., black ink: (printed) Museum of Modern Art / LOAN
    (typewritten) A.38.1748 / Bayer
  • stamp: on verso at l.r., black ink, in artist's hand: --y-- [artist's stamp]

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
BR48.102
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Tendenzen der Zwanziger Jahre : [15. Europäische Kunstausstellung unter den Auspizien des Europarates : in der Neuen Nationalgalerie, der Akademie der Künste und der Grossen Orangerie des Schlosses Charlottenburg zu Berlin, vom 14. August bis zum 16. Okto, exh. cat., Dietrich Reimer Verlag (Berlin, 1977), pp. 1/212, 1/245, fig. 158, cat. no. 1/487, 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

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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