City
(Stadt)
(c. 1922)
Medium
hand-coloured lithograph
Measurements
8.7 × 17.2 cm (image) 19.5 × 25.8 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mrs Olive Hirschfeld, 1971
© Courtesy of the artist's estate
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack joined the Bauhaus in the winter semester of 1919–20 as an apprentice in the printmaking workshop under Lyonel Feininger. This lithograph reveals his awareness of the geometric abstraction being developed at the time by artists associated with Russian Constructivism and the Bauhaus.
Artwork Details
Accession Number
P70-1971
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)
Abstract Art Cityscapes
Subjects (specific)
cities flat (form attributes) geometric abstraction linear forms repetition (artistic concept) simplicity (artistic concept) texture (artistic concept)
Movements
Bauhaus