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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BRGA.24.32
People
Walter Gropius, German (Berlin, Germany 1883 - 1969 Boston, Mass., USA)
Title
Total Theater for Erwin Piscator, Berlin, 1927: View into shell: View from below of the dome structure (blue); the rings and hanging stage (yellow); view of the rings (red)
Other Titles
Original Language Title: UNTERANSICHT DER NETZWERK KUPFEL/BLAU/DER RINGE UND HAENEBUEHNE/GELB/ANSICHT DER RINGE/ROT/
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1927
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/169410

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and wash on paper
Dimensions
63.2 x 57.9 cm (24 7/8 x 22 13/16 in.)
frame: 82.2 x 76.2 x 2.2 cm (32 3/8 x 30 x 7/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Walter Gropius
Object Number
BRGA.24.32
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 103
  • Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund, Walter Gropius: An Illustrated Biography, Phaidon Press (London and New York, 2022), p. 120, fig. 58, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Walter Gropius' Total Theater Design of 1927: "A Variable Theater-Instrument", Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge
  • Modell Bauhaus, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin-Kreuzberg, 07/22/2009 - 10/04/2009

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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