id:			165611
accession number:	2007.44
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.44
updated:		2020-01-23 09:00:40.314000

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
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creation date:			c. 1927
creation date earliest:		1922
creation date latest:		1932
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Germany, 20th century
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - German 20th Century
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

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

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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.)
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	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."
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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 (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

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wall description: 
Consemüller, an architecture student at the Bauhaus, was hired to document the work, performances, and buildings at this revolutionary modernist German art school. Consemüller 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’s windows. Two fragments of reality are merged here to create an abstraction about space, perspective, and light.
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RELATED WORKS

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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
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	Fricke, Roswitha. Bauhaus Fotografie. [Düsseldorf]: Edition Marzona, 1982.
	page number: 	p. 54
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	Bauhaus. Bauhaus photography. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1985.
	page number: 	p. 23
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