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"id": 116587,
"accession_number": "1937.180",
"share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
"tombstone": "Antscha - Yellow and Green, c. 1925\u201330. Josef Frank (Swedish, born Austria, 1885\u20131967), Haus & Garten (Austrian, est. 1925). Cotton: paired plain weave warp; linen: unbleached weft; loom width, block printed; overall: 72.4 x 128.9 cm (28 1/2 x 50 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Educational Purchase Fund, 1937.180",
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"title": "Antscha - Yellow and Green",
"creation_date": "c. 1925\u201330",
"creation_date_earliest": 1925,
"creation_date_latest": 1930,
"artists_tags": [
"Jewish artists",
"male"
],
"culture": [],
"technique": "Cotton: paired plain weave warp; linen: unbleached weft; loom width, block printed",
"support_materials": [],
"department": "Textiles",
"collection": "Textiles",
"type": "Textile",
"measurements": "Overall: 72.4 x 128.9 cm (28 1/2 x 50 3/4 in.)",
"dimensions": {
"overall": {
"height": 0.724,
"height_inch": 28,
"height_inch_fraction": 0.5,
"width": 1.289,
"width_inch": 50,
"width_inch_fraction": 0.75
}
},
"state_of_the_work": null,
"edition_of_the_work": null,
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"inscriptions": [],
"exhibitions": {
"current": [
{
"id": 313463,
"title": "Color and Comfort: Swedish Modern Design",
"description": "Color and Comfort: Swedish Modern Design. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 11, 2019-February 10, 2020).",
"opening_date": "2019-02-17T05:00:00"
}
],
"legacy": []
},
"provenance": [
{
"description": "Likely purchased by Mrs. Ruth F. Ruggles in Vienna, Austria from \"Haus & Garten\"",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "1937",
"sortorder": 1
}
],
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"related_works": [],
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"did_you_know": "This textile was produced in at least two different colorways.",
"early_education_description": null,
"artlens_description": null,
"description": "With a title derived from a feminine Hungarian name, the Antscha pattern shows Josef Frank\u2019s early use of long sinuous vines. Another example of the same textile (1937.181) exists in pink and blue, suggesting that pattern colors were customizable to fit the customer\u2019s d\u00e9cor. These examples are likely the only surviving versions in an institutional collection.",
"external_resources": {
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"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80010858"
],
"internet_archive": []
},
"citations": [
{
"citation": "See \"December, 1937.\" Education Department Annual Report, 1937, CMA Archives.",
"page_number": null,
"url": null
}
],
"url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1937.180",
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"creditline": "Educational Purchase Fund",
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"athena_id": 116587,
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"description": "Josef Frank (Swedish, born Austria, 1885\u20131967)",
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"biography": "Born to a Jewish family in Baden, Austria, Josef Frank was an architect and designer who came of age in pre-war Vienna. He graduated from the Technische Hochschule (Polytechnic) in 1910 and taught at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) until the mid-1920s. An associate of the Wiener Werkst\u00e4tte, Frank founded his own interior design firm Haus & Garten in 1925 with Oskar Wlach (1881-1963) and Walter Sobotka (1888-1972). During this venture Frank wrote several design treatises including Architektur als Symbol (1931). Frank married Anna Sebenius, a Swedish woman, in 1912 and in 1933 began designing for the Stockholm-based interior design company Svenkst Tenn. Although he immigrated to Sweden and adopted Swedish citizenship in 1938, Frank spent World War II in the United States teaching at the New School for Social Research in New York. In 1946 Frank returned to Sweden, continuing work with Svenkst Tenn until his death in 1967. Frank is considered to be one of the pioneers of Swedish modern design and the \u201cScandinavian Style.\u201d",
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"birth_year": "1885",
"death_year": "1967",
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"description": "Haus & Garten (Austrian, est. 1925)",
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"role": "manufacturer",
"biography": "Established by Josef Frank (1885-1967), Oskar Wlach (1881-1963) and Walter Sobotka (1888-1972) in 1925, the Vienna-based interior design firm Haus & Garten worked concurrent with the Wiener Werkst\u00e4tte. Frank acted as lead designer with Wlach overseeing the business. Despite his immigration to Sweden in 1933, Frank continued working with the firm until giving up his partnership in 1938. Sobotka departed from the firm earlier in 1926.",
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"legal_status": "accessioned",
"accession_date": "1937-12-20T00:00:00",
"sortable_date": 1925,
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"date_text": "c. 1925\u201330",
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"record_type": "object",
"conservation_statement": "This textile is from Josef Frank\u2019s interior furnishing company, HAUS & GARTEN. It is plain weave and features a paired warp which is not seen in any other Josef Frank textiles. Under magnification there is a noticeable color difference between the warp and the weft. A polarized light microscope can be used to identify fibers; each fiber type has a unique structure that is visible under magnification. This technique requires a very small sample to be removed from the object. Through polarized light microscopy (PLM), the warp was identified as cotton with its helical structure, and the weft was identified as a bast fiber, likely linen, because it has striations perpendicular to the length of the fiber.",
"has_conservation_images": true,
"cover_accession_number": null,
"is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
"impression": null,
"alternate_titles": [
"No Title"
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"updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:47:54.478000"
}
}