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Theo van Doesburg: Postcard of the Bauhaus in Weimar with writings by Theo van Doesburg, 12 Sept. 1921.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Theo van Doesburg  (1883–1931)  wikidata:Q160422 s:en:Author:Theo van Doesburg q:en:Theo van Doesburg
 
Theo van Doesburg
Alternative names
Emile Küpper, Christian Emil Marie Küpper, I.K. Bonset, Aldo Camini
Description Dutch architect, painter, drawer and writer
Date of birth/death 30 August 1883 Edit this at Wikidata 7 March 1931 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Utrecht Davos
Work period 1899-1931
Work location
Amsterdam (1899-1914), Amersfoort (September 1908), Apeldoorn (July 1910), Fort bij Veldhuis (Heemskerk) (July 1914), Groesbeek (May 1915-June 1915, September 1916), Utrecht (September 1915-1916), Zoeterwoude (1916), Leiden (1916-1921), Paris (28 March 1921), Weimar (1921-1924), Rügen (July 1922-August 1922), Paris (1923), Clamart (1924-1930), Belle-Île-en-Mer (June 1924), Strasbourg (September 1926-February 1928), San Sebastián (1927), Antrain (Summer 1929
date QS:P,+1929-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P4241,Q40720564
), The Hague (1929), Auvers-sur-Oise (September 1930), Meudon (December 1930-February 1931), Davos (March 1931)
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artist QS:P170,Q160422
Postcard by anonymous, writing by Theo van Doesburg
Title
Postcard of the Bauhaus in Weimar with writings by Theo van Doesburg, 12 Sept. 1921.
Date 12 September 1921
date QS:P571,+1921-09-12T00:00:00Z/11
Medium Ink on postcard
institution QS:P195,Q758610
Current location
Van Doesburgarchief
Accession number
0408/2204
Object history from September 1921
date QS:P,+1921-09-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1921-09-00T00:00:00Z/10
: Antony Kok (1882-1969), Tilburg
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: given to Nelly van Doesburg (1899-1975), Meudon, by Antony Kok, Tilburg (?)

1975: inherited by Wies van Moorsel from Nelly van Doesburg, Meudon (?)

1981: given to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague, by Wies van Moorsel (?)
Exhibition history Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, 20 October 2009–3 January 2010, Tate Modern, London, 4 February 2010–16 May 2010, ISBN 978-1-85437-872-9, without cat. no.  , p. 256, no image, as ‘Postcard of the studio wing of the Bauhaus from van Doesburg to Antony Kok, 12 September 1921’.
Credit line Van Moorsel donation to the Dutch State 1981
Inscriptions

left:

VOOR DE INEENSTORTING

bottom:

WORDT GEBOMBARDEERD DOOR N'DIMENSIONAAL

left:

STYL GESCHUT.
Source/Photographer Alied Ottevanger (2007) De Stijl in Tilburg. Over de vriendschap tussen Theo van Doesburg en Antony Kok, Amsterdam: Stokerkade, cultuurhistorische uitgeverij, ISBN 90-7915-601-9, p. 42.

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