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Collage with printed text and a picture of a drawing on the left and on the right a picture of a building with printed and typed inscriptions, a handwritten message, and a picture of a sculpture of a cat.
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KURT SCHWERDTFEGER / KUNST UND SCHULE / Pädagogische Bücherei Band 22 / Herausgeber Prof. Dr. Otto Haase / Umfang etwa 260 Seiten im Querformat 17 x 24.5 cm mit über 90 Abbildungen / und 16 farbigen Tafeln (printed text in black on white paper in the top left of collage)
HERMANN SCHROEDEL VERLAG · K.G. (Printed white text on a black background in upper left of the collage)
Formdeutungen aus Holzmaserungen . Entwicklungs- und Jugendalter (text with the printed picture of a drawing on left side of collage)
Itten Muche Mazdasnan (typed text on lower right side of collage)
KURT SCHWERDTFEGER / geb. 1897 in Ostpommern. Studium am Bauhaus / Weimar 1920-1925. Lehrer der Kunstgewerbeschule Stettin von 1926-37. Seit 1946 Professor an der / Pädagogischen Hochschule in Alfeld. (printed text on lower right side of collage)
Für Wlater Gropius sum 17 Mai 1953. (handwritten message in German)
Schwertfeger, Kurt, 1897- (Artist)
11 3/4 x 16 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Ise Gropius
1984.54.64
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