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Photograph, Design for Bauhaus: Zeitschrift für Bau und Gestaltung (Design for Bauhaus: Magazine for Building and Design) Cover, Vol. 2, No. 1

This is a Photograph. It was designed by Herbert Bayer. It is dated 1928 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is photographic print on glossy paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors.

Its dimensions are

25.3 × 20.4 cm (9 15/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, verso, across center: 90 mm[?] [between an arrow] / 46%; lower center: &[?]; lower right: Dr. [indecipherable]

Cite this object as

Photograph, Design for Bauhaus: Zeitschrift für Bau und Gestaltung (Design for Bauhaus: Magazine for Building and Design) Cover, Vol. 2, No. 1; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); photographic print on glossy paper; 25.3 × 20.4 cm (9 15/16 × 8 1/16 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-305

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