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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR55.30
People
Lotte Frömmel-Fochler, Austrian (Vienna, Austria 1884 - 1972)
Manufactured by Wiener Werkstätte (1903 - 1932)
Title
Hummingbird
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Kolibri
Classification
Textile Arts
Work Type
textile
Date
1910-1911
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Austria, Vienna
Culture
Austrian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/223521

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink on silk
Technique
Relief print
Dimensions
14.5 x 10.3 cm (5 11/16 x 4 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: not attached, blue ink, printed, German: Entwurf: L. Fochler
    Marke: Kolibri 1 S/1
    Breite: 90 Preis: 8.70

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Rudolph Rosenthal, 1914, Sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1954.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchased from Rudolph Rosenthal, 1954, Gift to HUAM, 1955. Given to the BRM in exchange for 50 early 20th-century German textiles

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession Year
1955
Object Number
BR55.30
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
mounted with BR55.31, BR55.33, and BR55.35
black ink

Publication History

  • Angela Völker, Die Stoffe der Wiener Werkstätte 1910-1932, Christian Brandstätter Verlag (Vienna, Austria, 1990), no. 250

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