- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- BR48.49
- People
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Anni Albers, American (Berlin 1899 - 1994 Orange, Conn.)
- Title
- Design for a Rug
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1927
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/226092
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Black ink and watercolor over graphite with drawn and cut paper additions on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- image: 21 x 15.6 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.)
sheet: 32.1 x 25.1 cm (12 5/8 x 9 7/8 in.)
standard frame: 49.8 x 39.7 cm (19 5/8 x 15 5/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- label: recto, l.l., black ink, typed, English: Anni Albers III.L927 / Design for a rug / not executed
- stamp: verso, u.r., 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
- BR48.49
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- pricked
- 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
Art of the Weimar Era, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 04/05/1982 - 05/22/1982
A Tribute to Walter Gropius, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 05/16/1983 - 07/01/1983
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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