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Photo Credit: photo: R. Lee

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The Night (Farbform “Die Nacht”)

1921
20th century
452 x 300 mm (17.8 x 11.8 in.)

Lothar Schreyer, German, (1886–1966)

Object Type: print

Medium and Support: Lithograph with hand painting in blue, white, and yellow watercolor on thin transparent buff paper

Print impression quality: Very good

Edition: Costume Design 2 for the play Kindersterben, probably a proof outside the edition of 110; the print was published in Bauhaus Mappenwerk I, Neue Europaische Graphik, 1921, issued in 1922

Marks: Inscribed in pencil, center: “Farbform ‘Die Nacht’ aus Bühnenwerk ‘Kindsterben’ 1920”; stamped in brown, lower right: artist’s monogram; embossed with Bauhaus blindstamp, lower left

Provenance / Collectors' Marks: Acquired by the donor in 1981 from R.M. Light & Co., Inc.

Bibliography: Catalogue Söhn, 1: 101–14; Heinz Peters, Die Bauhaus-Mappen, p. 35, no. 1/14; see Alice Adam Gallery catalog (Fall–Winter 1991–1992), cat. no. 56; see donor file.

Credit Line: Gift of Ellen G. D’Oench (BA Wesleyan 1973, Trustee 1977–1979, DAC Curator 1979–1998), 1995

Accession Number: 1995.37.1

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Bauhaus, clothing and dress*, night, night scenes, nonrepresentational art*, theater (discipline)*

Bauhaus
clothing and dress - From TGM with ampersand: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/tgm/item/tgm002198
night
night scenes
nonrepresentational art - Art which presents a visual form with no specific reference to anything outside itself. With regard to 20th-century art, use "Nonobjective." [May 1993 related term added.]
theater (discipline) - Use for the professionally oriented study of theater, involving training, practice, and study in the processes of doing theater. For the academically oriented study of theater, use "drama." [August 1995 descriptor changed, was "theater". April 1993 related term added.]

Location Latitude: German, Longitude: D'Oench

Dimensions

sheet Dimensions: 452 x 300 mm (17.8 x 11.8 in.)

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Lothar Schreyer, German, (1886–1966) . The Night (Farbform “Die Nacht”), 1921. Lithograph with hand painting in blue, white, and yellow watercolor on thin transparent buff paper. sheet : 452 x 300 mm (17.8 x 11.8 in.). DAC accession number 1995.37.1. Gift of Ellen G. D’Oench (BA Wesleyan 1973, Trustee 1977–1979, DAC Curator 1979–1998), 1995. (photo: R. Lee) .

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