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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BRGA.45.47
People
Berliner Bild-Bericht, German? (active early 20th century)
Designed by Walter Gropius, German (Berlin, Germany 1883 - 1969 Boston, Mass., USA)
Title
Werkbund Exhibition Paris, Room 1, Communal Rooms for a Ten-Story Apartment Building
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1930
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/52365

Physical Descriptions

Dimensions
16.9 × 22.9 cm (6 5/8 × 9 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. 8) werkbundausstellung paris, saal 1 (composition w. gropius) / gesellschaftsraum eines zehnstöckigen wohnhochhauses. blick auf die bibliothek: darunter / schreibtischnische, spielnische und gramofon-radionische. / geländer aus verzinkten "tezett" rosten, decke aus glasbausteinen (w. gropius) / stahlrohrstühlen: m. breuer / stahlrohrstuhl in der gramofonnische: mies van der rohe

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Ise Gropius
Object Number
BRGA.45.47
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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