- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- BR48.46
- People
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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
- Physical Descriptions
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- 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
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- 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
- 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
- BR48.46
- 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. 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.
- 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
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
- Subjects and Contexts
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The Bauhaus
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