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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2007.196
People
Lena Bergner, German (Coburg, Germany 1906 - 1981 Baden Soden, Germany)
Title
Weaving Technique: F ( Loom Detail)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1943
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/321178

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink over traces of graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
20.9 x 29.7 cm (8 1/4 x 11 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite, recto, along R edge: "Lena Bergner, Webtechnik"
  • inscription: in graphite, recto, BL; R: T-43 F; 8 [circled]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Lena Bergner-Meyer, Mexico City, Mexico, Created, 1943, ?.
Thomas Borgmann, Colgone, Germany, Purchased, Sold, 1980.
Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, NY, Pruchased, Sold, 1980.
Karl & Faber, Munich, Germany, Consigned, 2007, Sold, 2007.
Markus Michalke, Munich, Germany, Purchased, 2007, Gift, 2007.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Markus Michalke in honor of Timotheus R. Pohl
Copyright
© Estate of Lena Bergner
Accession Year
2007
Object Number
2007.196
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Viridiana Zavala Rivera, "Léna Bergner: From the Bauhaus to Mexico", Bitácora, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico, 2016), 34, pp. 4-15, p. 5, ill.

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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Verification Level

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