From the Harvard Art Museums’ collections Offset: Book and Advertising Art, Vol. 7, Special Issue on the Bauhaus

Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2021.170
People: Joost Schmidt, German (Nunstorf, Germany 1893 - 1948 Hannover, Germany)
Title: Offset: Book and Advertising Art, Vol. 7, Special Issue on the Bauhaus
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Offset Buch und Werbekunst, Jg. 7
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1926
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/372865

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Letterpress and offset lithograph with silver ink on paper

Technique

Letterpress

Dimensions

30.8 × 23.3 cm (12 1/8 × 9 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

label: 3 labels removed : DVD_6 / _MG_5984 / DVD_6 / MG 5985 and Bauhaus //

SCHMIDT //

JS_5D_2642 thru JS_5D_2647

Provenance

The Merrill C. Berman Collection (1980s/1990s-2021), sold; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2021.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Daimler Curatorship of the Busch-Reisinger Museum Fund
Accession Year: 2021
Object Number: 2021.170
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
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Exhibition History

White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/04/2022 - 07/31/2022

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