BR50.115: Dancers from the Weimar Bauhaus Stage Production of "Man at the Control Panel" by Kurt Schmidt

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR50.115

People

Unidentified Artist
Designer (production and costumes): Kurt Schmidt, German (Limbach, Saxony, Germany 1901 - 1991 Gera, Germany)

Title

Dancers from the Weimar Bauhaus Stage Production of "Man at the Control Panel" by Kurt Schmidt

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Der Mann am Schaltbrett

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

1924, printed c. 1950

Period

Modern

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/220796

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Modern gelatin silver print

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 13.5 x 18.4 cm (5 5/16 x 7 1/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1950

Object Number

BR50.115

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Printed by Busch-Reisinger Museum ca. 1950 from original glass-plate negative.

Publication History

• Vincenzo De Bellis, ed., The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance, exh. cat., Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, 2020), pp. 85, 301, ill.

Exhibition History

• The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 05/14/2021 - 08/08/2021

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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