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1923

  • Work on this object began.

2016

  • We acquired this object.

2025

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Photograph, Designs for German Inflationary Money, 1923

This is a Photograph. It was designed by Herbert Bayer. It is dated 1923 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

12.8 × 13 cm (5 1/16 × 5 1/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in red color pencil, center: 2 1/4 [between two vertical red lines]

Cite this object as

Photograph, Designs for German Inflationary Money, 1923; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); photographic print on glossy paper; 12.8 × 13 cm (5 1/16 × 5 1/8 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-308

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