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1923

  • Work on this object began.

1988

  • We acquired this object.

2025

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Drawing, Textile Design: Akustik (Acoustic), 1923

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Charlotte Anna (Lotte) Calm and made for Wiener Werkstätte. It is dated 1923 and we acquired it in 1988. Its medium is brush and gouache on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds.

Its dimensions are

13 × 6.7 cm (5 1/8 × 2 5/8 in.) Mat: 31.8 × 45.1 cm (12 1/2 × 17 3/4 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped in red ink, lower right: WIENER / WERK / STÄTTE

It is inscribed

Inscribed in blue crayon, upper right: 83; in pen and black ink, lower right: Dessin: "Akustik"

Cite this object as

Drawing, Textile Design: Akustik (Acoustic), 1923; Designed by Charlotte Alice Calm-Wierink (Austrian, 1897 - 1927); Made for Wiener Werkstätte (Austria); brush and gouache on paper; 13 × 6.7 cm (5 1/8 × 2 5/8 in.) Mat: 31.8 × 45.1 cm (12 1/2 × 17 3/4 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds; 1988-62-53

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