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Bauhaus Sculptural Study

Bauhaus Sculptural Study

c. 1927
(German, 1902–1957)
Germany, 20th century
gelatin silver print
Image: 10.6 x 7.6 cm (4 3/16 x 3 in.); Paper: 10.9 x 8 cm (4 5/16 x 3 1/8 in.); Mounted, primary: 14.7 x 10.5 cm (5 13/16 x 4 1/8 in.); Mounted, secondary: 35.6 x 27.9 cm (14 x 11 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.44
Location: not on view

Description

Consemüller, an architecture student at the Bauhaus, was hired to document the work, performances, and buildings at this revolutionary modernist German art school. Consemüller made an artistic rather than documentary image of this wooden sculptural model by another student. He had it held on its side so that its crossbars became diagonals, and set them against the rectilinear grid of the school’s windows. Two fragments of reality are merged here to create an abstraction about space, perspective, and light.
  • (Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY)
    Egidio Marzona [b.1944], Berlin
    2007
    David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
    2007-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014. cat. no. 117, p. 165
    Fricke, Roswitha. Bauhaus Fotografie. [Düsseldorf]: Edition Marzona, 1982. p. 54
    Bauhaus. Bauhaus photography. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1985. p. 23
  • Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
  • {{cite web|title=Bauhaus Sculptural Study|url=false|author=Erich Consemüller|year=c. 1927|access-date=23 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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