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Lantern festival Bauhaus
(Laternenfest Bauhaus)
1922
Medium
hand-coloured lithograph
Measurements
95.0 × 14.0 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mrs Olive Hirschfeld, 1971
Gallery location
Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
Artists who taught at the Bauhaus – the German art school founded by architect Walter Gropius in 1919 – such as Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger and Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack, designed handpainted invitations and postcards for festivals and exhibitions held at the art school. This 1922 postcard by Klee depicts the Lantern Festival, an annual celebration that took place on the evening of the summer solstice. On this night, students and members of the faculty would parade through the streets of Weimar holding lanterns crafted in the Bauhaus workshops.
Artwork Details
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Kornfeld 87
Inscription
inscribed in ink (in image) l.l.: Klee
inscribed in ink (in image) u.l.-u.r.: LATERNEN FEST / BAUHAUS 1922
Accession Number
P55-1971
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Subjects (general)
Advertising, Communication and Graphic Design Human Figures Leisure, Games and Sport
Subjects (specific)
advertisements circles (plane figures) festivals postcards simplicity (artistic concept) stripes text (layout feature) wave pattern
Movements
Bauhaus