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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BRGA.82.138
People
Walter Gropius, German (Berlin, Germany 1883 - 1969 Boston, Mass., USA)
Marcel Breuer, American (Pecs, Hungary 1902 - 1981 New York, N.Y., USA)
Title
Gropius Residence, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1938: Model
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1938
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311013

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Wood, plaster and other materials with gouache
Dimensions
actual: 86.4 x 61.2 cm (34 x 24 1/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Walter Gropius
Object Number
BRGA.82.138
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Freiräume: Häuser, die Geschichte machten, 1920 bis 1940, HypoVereinsbank (Munich, 1998), p. 149, b/w illus.

Exhibition History

  • Display in New Walter Gropius Room, Loeb Library, Cambridge, 04/14/1991 - 04/17/1992
  • Exiles and Emigres: 1933-1945, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 02/20/1997 - 05/11/1997; Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Montreal, 06/19/1997 - 09/07/1997; Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, 10/16/1997 - 01/04/1998
  • The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000 (Part I: 1900-1950), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 04/22/1999 - 08/22/1999

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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