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Object Number

BR48.46

People

Anni Albers, American (Berlin 1899 - 1994 Orange, Conn.)

Title

Design for a Jacquard Weaving

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1926

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/226105

Medium

Black ink, transparent and opaque watercolor and graphite on cream wove paper

Dimensions

image: 25.8 x 16.3 cm (10 3/16 x 6 7/16 in.)
sheet: 34.3 x 28.6 cm (13 1/2 x 11 1/4 in.)
standard frame: 49.8 x 39.7 cm (19 5/8 x 15 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: l.l., typed: Anni Albers III.1926 // design for jaquard weaving
• stamp: l.l., underneath label, embossed stamp: ...RS HAMMER
• stamp: On verso, u.r. in black ink: Albers Dessau // Stresemann Allee 2

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

BR48.46

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

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Josef Helfenstein, ed., Josef und Anni Albers : Europa und Amerika, exh. cat., DuMont (Cologne, Germany, 1998), p. 41, cat. no. 14

Nicholas Fox Weber and Pandora Tabatabai Asbaghi, Anni Albers, exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY, 1999), no. 10

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. 4, p. 61, color illus.

From Werkbund to Bauhaus: Art and Design in Germany 1900-1934, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1980 - 04/26/1980

20th-Century Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/07/1981 - 11/11/1981

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

The Bauhaus Workshops: 1919-1933, American Craft Museum, New York, 06/29/1994 - 09/12/1994

Josef and Anni Albers - Europe and America, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, 11/06/1998 - 01/31/1999

Anni Albers, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 03/24/1999 - 05/24/1999

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

Artisanal Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/28/2023 - 05/07/2023

The Bauhaus

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