An abstract geometric design in blue yellow and gray
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A precisely drawn square is subdivided into nine smaller variously sized square or rectangular blocks of color. There are three blocks each of yellow, blue and gray, arranged so that no two same colored blocks touch each other, but all interlock like a puzzle. At center right, within one of the blue rectangles there is a circle of a similar but darker blue. There is a border of the cream colored paper all around the entire square.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1996.324
People
Andor Weininger, American (Karancs, Hungary 1899 - 1986 New York, N.Y., USA)
Title
De Stijl Composition II
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Untitled (De Stijl study)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1922
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/218281

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gouache and graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 24.9 x 24.9 cm (9 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
image: 21 x 21 cm (8 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on verso in blue ink at l.r.: Andrew Weininger, Weimar 1922
  • inscription: verso, l.l., red and blue inks, German, in artist's hand: "Stijlkomposition II 2:3:4 mit 'Schwerpunkt' in Blau-gelb-grün Fassung" -12-8-16
  • inscription: l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: Nr. 3.
  • inscription: u.l., graphite, in artist's hand: 2:3:4 12 b 8 g 16 gr.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Eva Weininger
Copyright
© Estate of Andor Weininger / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1996
Object Number
1996.324
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Timothy O. Benson, ed., Central European Avant-gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art and MIT Press (Los Angeles and Cambridge, MA, 2002), p. 209 (color illus), p. 412

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1520 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Interwar and Bauhaus), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/01/2018 - 12/10/2018

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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