- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- BR48.50
- People
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Anni Albers, American (Berlin 1899 - 1994 Orange, Conn.)
- Title
- Design for a Silk Tapestry
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1926
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/226052
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- image: 39.5 x 26 cm (15 9/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
sheet: 47.8 x 31.7 cm (18 13/16 x 12 1/2 in.)
standard frame: 59.1 x 45.1 cm (23 1/4 x 17 3/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: in graphite at l.r.: A. Albers
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label: l.l., typewritten: Anni Albers II. 1926 / tapestry / silk, 48" wide/
3 ply weave - (not assigned): on verso, u.r. in black ink: Albers Dessau // Stresemann allee 2
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Anni Albers
- Copyright
- © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Accession Year
- 1948
- Object Number
- BR48.50
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Nicholas Fox Weber and Martin Filler, Josef and Anni Albers: Designs for Living, exh. cat., Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and Merrell Publishers Ltd. (London and New York, 2004), cat. no. 7, p. 64, color illus.
- Exhibition History
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From Werkbund to Bauhaus: Art and Design in Germany 1900-1934, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1980 - 04/26/1980
Deutsche Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus dem Busch-Reisinger Museum, Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, 10/23/1982 - 01/16/1983; Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin 30, 02/10/1983 - 04/17/1983; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 05/08/1983 - 06/26/1983
The Bauhaus Workshops: 1919-1933, American Craft Museum, New York, 06/29/1994 - 09/12/1994
Bauhaus: Dessau-Chicago-New York, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, 08/12/2000 - 11/12/2000
Josef and Anni Albers: Designs for Living, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, 10/01/2004 - 02/27/2005
32Q: 1520 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Interwar and Bauhaus), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/16/2015 - 02/24/2016
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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