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        "tombstone": "Bauhaus Sculptural Study, c. 1927. Erich Consem\u00fcller (German, 1902\u20131957). 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",
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                "inscription": "Typed label on recto of mount: \"(24) #12/1. Mounted on black paper/2.Erich Consem\u00fcller (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-Consem\u00fcller\"/5.Bauhaus student, self taught in photography/,produced fine/work, especially abstraction.\"",
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                    "title": "Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography",
                    "description": "<i>Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).",
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                "description": "Egidio Marzona [b.1944], Berlin",
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        "description": "Consem\u00fcller, an architecture student at the Bauhaus, was hired to document the work, performances, and buildings at this revolutionary modernist German art school. Consem\u00fcller 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\u2019s windows. Two fragments of reality are merged here to create an abstraction about space, perspective, and light.",
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                "page_number": "cat. no. 117, p. 165",
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                "citation": "Fricke, Roswitha. Bauhaus Fotografie. [Du\u0308sseldorf]: Edition Marzona, 1982.",
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