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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR60.36.2
People
Lyonel Feininger, American (New York, NY 1871 - 1956 New York, NY)
Title
Bauhaus [Dessau]
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
documentary, photograph
Date
March 22, 1929
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Germany, Dessau
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/222856

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 17.8 x 23.8 cm (7 x 9 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in black ink on verso, BR: Lyonel Feininger
  • inscription: in black ink on verso, BR: (night exposure)
  • inscription: in black ink on verso, BR: Lyonel Feininger, Dessau, d. 22.III.29 // "Das Bauhaus, I"

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lyonel Feininger
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
BR60.36.2
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Achim Moeller, Lyonel Feininger: Drawings and Watercolors from the Julia Feininger Estate, exh. cat., Moeller Fine Art (New York and Berlin, 2011), p. 146, fig. 43, ill.
  • Laura Muir, Lyonel Feininger: Photographs, 1928-1939, exh. cat. (Ostfildern, Germany, 2011), pl.8

Exhibition History

  • Lyonel Feininger: Photographs, 1928-1939, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, 02/26/2011 - 05/15/2011; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munchen, 06/02/2011 - 07/17/2011; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 10/25/2011 - 03/11/2012; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/30/2012 - 06/02/2012

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus
  • Lyonel Feininger: Photographs

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