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1928

  • Work on this object began.

1938

  • Work on this object ended.

2016

  • We acquired this object.

2019

2025

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Print, Weil es im Winter mehr regnet als im Sommer (Because It Rains More in Winter Than in Summer)

This is a Print. It was designed by Herbert Bayer. It is dated 1928–38 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on white paper, mounted to black cardstock paper, with glassine attached to back. 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

27.7 × 20.9 cm (10 7/8 × 8 1/4 in.) Mount: 37.6 × 27.6 cm (14 13/16 × 10 7/8 in.)

It is signed

Printed in white ink, vertically, upper left corner: dorland Y[inside a box]

Cite this object as

Print, Weil es im Winter mehr regnet als im Sommer (Because It Rains More in Winter Than in Summer) ; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); offset lithograph on white paper, mounted to black cardstock paper, with glassine attached to back; 27.7 × 20.9 cm (10 7/8 × 8 1/4 in.) Mount: 37.6 × 27.6 cm (14 13/16 × 10 7/8 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-98

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