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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR48.51.B
People
Unidentified Artist
Textile: Anni Albers, American (Berlin 1899 - 1994 Orange, Conn.)
Title
Photograph of Silk Curtains for "Theatercafé, Dessau" by Anni Albers
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
documentary, photograph
Date
c. 1928
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221091

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print mounted to off-white wove paper
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
9.2 x 17.2 cm (3 5/8 x 6 3/4 in.)
mount: 17 x 30.5 cm (6 11/16 x 12 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Collection of the artist (c. 1928-1948), gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1948.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Anni Albers
Copyright
© The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1948
Object Number
BR48.51.B
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ann Coxon, Briony Fer, and Maria Müller-Schareck, ed., Anni Albers, exh. cat., Tate Publishing (London, 2018), p. 183

Exhibition History

  • Anni Albers, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, 06/09/2018 - 09/09/2018; Tate Modern, London, 10/11/2018 - 01/27/2019

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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