id:			165611
accession number:	2007.44
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.44
updated:		2025-02-09 06:18:39.059000

Bauhaus Sculptural Study, c. 1927. Erich Consemüller (German, 1902–1957). 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2007.44

title:				Bauhaus Sculptural Study
title in original language:	
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			c. 1927
creation date earliest:		1922
creation date latest:		1932
current location:		
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
copyright:			

---

culture:	Germany, 20th century
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - German 20th Century
type:		Photograph
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

---

CREATORS

* Erich Consemüller (German, 1902–1957)  - artist

---

measurements: 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.)
state of the work:	
edition of the work: 	

support materials:


inscriptions:

	inscription:	Typed label on recto of mount: "(24) #12/1. Mounted on black paper/2.Erich Consemüller (attributed on package and in box)/3.Sculptural study shot from below with Bauhaus building visible through design forming a complex abstraction/4.BF, p. 26, "study c. 1927-Consemüller"/5.Bauhaus student, self taught in photography/,produced fine/work, especially abstraction."
	translation:	
	remark:		

---

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography
	opening date:   2014-10-19T00:00:00
	<i>Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).

---

LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

---

PROVENANCE

	(Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY)
	date: 
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	Egidio Marzona [b.1944], Berlin
	date: 
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
	date: 2007
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2007-
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


---

fun fact:


digital description:


wall description:

---

RELATED WORKS

---

CITATIONS

	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.
	page number: 	cat. no. 117, p. 165
	url:		

	Fricke, Roswitha. Bauhaus Fotografie. [Düsseldorf]: Edition Marzona, 1982.
	page number: 	p. 54
	url:		

	Bauhaus. Bauhaus photography. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1985.
	page number: 	p. 23
	url:		

---

IMAGES