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Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1953

GUSN

GUSN-247160

Description

Front: Map clipping, decorative paper, black and white photographs, and paper with text collaged to a single piece of paper attached to illustration board. Handwritten inscriptions include well wishes and signatures.

Back: Printed images and decorative paper in black, white, grey, and red completely cover the reverse side of the board. Images depict architectural drawings, ceramics, abstract pictures.

Details

Descriptive Terms

collages (visual works)
pictures (two-dimensional representations)
paper (fiber product)
ink
illustration board
Collage
Collage

Inscription

berliner bauhäusler (Typed text on blue-grey paper)
walter gropius (typed)
[illegible handwriting] (Handwritten pencil inscription)
Prost! (handwritten)
breusing / burchard / ebert / hassenpflug / hirche / hoffman / hofmann / konnert / kranz / kuhr / lindig / ludwig / marx / neidenberger / ninnemann / pfeil / wagner-reichardt / scheper-berkenkamp / schmitt / thiemann / wagenfeld / weber / winter (Printed names in red on decorative paper)
Hoffman (Names signed over biographies in Germain belonging to the same name)
Neidenberger
Fritz Pfeil
Reichardt
Schmitt
Karl Marx

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

11 9/16 x 16 9/16 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Bequest of Ise Gropius

Accession Number

1984.54.50

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