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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR56.254
People
Johannes Itten, Swiss (Süderen-Linden, Switzerland 1888 - 1967 Zurich, Switzerland)
Title
Dictum, from the portfolio "New European Graphics, Portfolio I: Masters of the State Bauhaus in Weimar"
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Spruch, aus Bauhaus Mappe "Neue Europäische Graphik, Erste Mappe: Meister d. Staatlichen Bauhauses in Weimar"
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1921
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/223481

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph printed in colored and black inks on off-white card
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 35.1 x 24.8 cm (13 13/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite at l.r.: Itten

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
AP VIII/XX
Standard Reference Number
Wingler I/3

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Julia Feininger
Accession Year
1956
Object Number
BR56.254
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), p. 121, repr.
  • Peter Nisbet and Emilie Norris, Busch-Reisinger Museum: History and Holdings, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1991), p. 83, ill.
  • Magdalena Droste, Bauhaus 1919-1933, Taschen and Bauhaus-Archiv (Cologne, 2019), pp. 42-43, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Bauhaus Art and Design, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 06/07/1982 - 10/30/1982
  • A Tribute to Walter Gropius, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 05/16/1983 - 07/01/1983
  • The Graphic Legacy of Paul Klee, Blum Art Institute, New York, 10/24/1983 - 12/27/1983
  • Prints in Weimar Germany: 1918-1933, Block Gallery, Evanston, 01/06/1994 - 03/13/1994; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, 04/08/1994 - 07/26/1994; University of Texas at Austin Art Museum, Austin, 09/09/1994 - 10/16/1994

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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