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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2004.18
People
László Moholy-Nagy, American (Bacsborsod, Hungary 1895 - 1946 Chicago, Ill., USA)
Title
Photogram
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1925-26
Period
Modern
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/69836

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print (photogram)
Technique
Photogram
Dimensions
image: 17.8 x 23.7 cm (7 x 9 5/16 in.)
standard frame: 39.7 x 49.8 cm (15 5/8 x 19 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, t.c., graphite, in artist's hand: arrow pointing to edge of print.
  • inscription: verso, l.c., graphite, in artist's hand: arrow pointing to edge of print

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Herbert Molderings, Cologne, Germany, Sale, 2004.
Helmut Franke, Gift, 1946.
Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, Chicago, IL, Inheritance, 1946, Gift, 1946.
László Moholy-Nagy, Dessau, Germany, Created, 1925, Left to Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, 1946.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Heyne 2009 fgm 103

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase in part through the Edmee Busch Greenough Fund for the Busch Reisinger Museum and through the generosity of Dr. Werner and Maren Otto in honor of Timotheus R. Pohl
Accession Year
2004
Object Number
2004.18
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • László Moholy-Nagy and Dr. Herbert Molderings, László Moholy-Nagy, Nathan (Paris, France, 1998), no. 26
  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 120
  • Gu Zheng, "Documentary and Representative: Harvard Art Museums' Photography Collections (Part Two)", Chinese Photography (Beijing, China, 2018), 468, pp. 128-135, p. 133, ill. (color)
  • Laura Muir, Object Lessons: The Bauhaus and Harvard, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), pp. 253, 278, plate 18, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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