Bauhaus photography - Entwurf zu einem Werbeplakat für Streichhölzer - image-1

Lot 32 Rα

Bauhaus photography - Entwurf zu einem Werbeplakat für Streichhölzer

Auction 1068 - overview Cologne
03.06.2016, 14:00 - Photography
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
Result: 1.488 € (incl. premium)

Bauhaus photography

Entwurf zu einem Werbeplakat für Streichhölzer
1932

Vintage gelatin silver print on Agfa-Lupex paper. 10.6 x 7.4 cm. Annotated in an unknown hand in ink 'Klasse Joost Schmidt, Bauhaus Dessau' as well as variously numbered in pencil and crayon on the verso. - Small tear at upper edge. Matted.

This work is a reproduction of an advert design made by a student of the advertising department at the Bauhaus in Dessau.

Provenance

Private collection, Southern Germany; Lempertz Sale 808, September 15, 2001, lot 5; private collection, Germany

Literature

Hans M. Wingler, Das Bauhaus. 1919-1933. Weimar, Dessau, Berlin und die Nachfolge in Chicago seit 1937, Bramsche 1968, ill. p. 515