Color-Form 2, from Dying Children

1921

Lothar Schreyer

Associated Names
Lothar Schreyer

Artist, German, 1886 - 1966

Verlag Müller & Co.

Publisher, German

The image features geometric shapes, including a large black semicircle and a smaller blue semicircle below it. The black semicircle has a red circular patch and a yellow sliver. Above, a rectangular form with vertical lines extends outwards, along with curved outlines of dots creating an oval shape. Below the blue semicircle, there are black angular lines.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    hand-colored lithograph on japan paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 49.5 × 35.1 cm (19 1/2 × 13 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.471

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Söhn 1989, Vol. (I), no. 101-14, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar, Dessau, Berlin (Lugt 2558b). (Jörg Maass Kunsthandel, Berlin); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Bibliography

1989

  • Söhn, Gerhart. Handbuch der Original-Graphik in deutschen Zeitschriften, Mappenwerken, Kunstbüchern und Katalogen (HDO), 1890-1933. Düsseldorf: Edition GS, 1989-1998: no.101-14, only

Inscriptions

signed and dated at lower right: Lothar Schreyer / 1921

Wikidata ID

Q76556994

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