- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- BR48.48
- People
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Anni Albers, American (Berlin 1899 - 1994 Orange, Conn.)
- Title
- Design for a Tapestry
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1925
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/226064
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Watercolor and gouache over graphite on heavy cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- image: 17.3 x 11 cm (6 13/16 x 4 5/16 in.)
sheet: 32 x 25.9 cm (12 5/8 x 10 3/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- label: l.l., ink, typewritten: Anni Albers VIII.1925 // Tapestry // Coll: National Museum, Munich, Germany
- Provenance
- Collection of the artist (1925 -1948), gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1948.
- 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
- BR48.48
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Josef Helfenstein, ed., Josef und Anni Albers : Europa und Amerika, exh. cat., DuMont (Cologne, Germany, 1998), p. 180
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. 2, p. 59, color illus.
Ann Coxon, Briony Fer, and Maria Müller-Schareck, ed., Anni Albers, exh. cat., Tate Publishing (London, 2018), pp. 48, 179, ill. (color)
- Exhibition History
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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
Anni Albers, Jewish Museum, 05/28/2000 - 08/20/2000
Josef and Anni Albers: Designs for Living, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, 10/01/2004 - 02/27/2005
Anni Albers, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, 06/09/2018 - 09/09/2018; Tate Modern, London, 10/11/2018 - 01/27/2019
- Subjects and Contexts
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The Bauhaus
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