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The Night

Lothar Schreyer

Artwork Details

The Night
1922
Lothar Schreyer
lithograph and watercolor on paper
17 7/8 in x 11 7/8 in (45.4 cm x 30.2 cm);17 7/8 in x 11 7/8 in (45.4 cm x 30.16 cm);11 1/2 in x 6 3/4 in (29.21 cm x 17.15 cm);19 1/4 in x 14 1/4 in (48.9 cm x 36.2 cm)
Museum Purchase
1948/1.436

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Description

Subject Matter:

Lothar Schreyer did several editions of this print with a different color in the lower half circle (black in this print). One of them was included in the Bauhaus portfolio titled New European Graphics, 1st Portfolio: Masters of the State Bauhaus, a project that was intended to raise money for the school. The first portfolio contained prints by masters of the Bauhaus style. Schreyer was a member of the Bauhaus School for a brief period in the early 1920s. His work was considered to have charactersitics of the German Expressionist movement as well.

Physical Description:

This abstract composition has two black half circles, and a large one with the rounded side to the left balanced precariously on a smaller one with the rounded side to the right. At the top, five yellow stripes hang from a line extending from the top half circle. At the bottom, the entire structure balances atop three sides to a square. In the upper right corner is a cone shape outlined in small black dots.

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