BRGA.45.71: Werkbund Exhibition Paris, Room 3, Apartment in a Boarding House

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BRGA.45.71

People

Berliner Bild-Bericht, German? (active early 20th century)
Designed by Marcel Breuer, American (Pecs, Hungary 1902 - 1981 New York, N.Y., USA)

Title

Werkbund Exhibition Paris, Room 3, Apartment in a Boarding House

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

1930

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/51208

Physical Descriptions

Dimensions

16.5 × 23 cm (6 1/2 × 9 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• stamp: Stamped in blue ink at center: Berliner Bild-Bericht / Berlin W.30, Eisenacher Str. 103. / Bei Reproduktion erbitte / Belegexemplar und Angabe der Firma / Alle Rechte vorbehalten
• stamp: Stamped in red ink at l.l.: bauatelier prod. walter gropius / berlin w35 / potsdamer str. 121a / tel.: b 1 kurfürst 2583
• label: Typed label in black ink at u.c.: nr. 21) werkbundausstellung paris, saal 2 (composition moholy-nagy) / standardpostamt der oberpostdirektion münchen, entwurf: vorhoelyer u. schmidt
  [Note: this is the incorrect label. The photograph depicts room 3, not room 2. It is correct for the object BRGA.45.68 and .69]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Ise Gropius

Object Number

BRGA.45.71

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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