Historic New England

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Birthday card to Walter Gropius from Herbert Bayer; depicts hazy red background with finger print and clouds, boy in lederhosen costume with a staff at right bottom corner.

Date: 1943

Maker: Bayer, Herbert, 1900-1985 (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 248426

Accession Number: 1984.58.13

Clipping from magazine or other publication affixed to a pink card. Clipping includes a photograph depicting a man demonstrating how an object may be suspended in a jet of air without any other support; handwritten inscription in red ink beneath photograph.

Date: 1943

Maker: Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo, d. 1945 (Artist)

Material: ink, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 248430

Accession Number: 1984.58.15

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Birthday card to Walter Gropius: Berlin work picture matted in a blue paper greeting card. Image depicts a blue bird in a tree with a mountain behind, blue sky with a flying bird, and other trees and flowers. Colors include blue, green, tan, and red, with a dark green and pink border. A small piece ...

Date: 1943

Maker: Storrow, Helen Osborne, 1864-1944 (Artist)

Material: Berlin woolwork, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 248432

Accession Number: 1984.58.16

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Greeting card depicts man sitting in a chair with his head in his hands with a bubble above his head with a photograph of a woman; sepia and black and white photographs arranged in a collage.

Date: 1943

Maker: Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981 (Artist)

Material: photographs, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 248433

Accession Number: 1984.58.29

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Collage on pink backgroud; black and white photograph depicts Ise Gropius; photograph surrounded by three small feathers and a small card with her initial "I" in calligraphy.

Date: 1943

Maker: Gropius, Ise (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), feather (material), photographic paper

GUSN: 248434

Accession Number: 1984.58.31

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Photograph affixed to a blue card with red corners. Photographic depicts a man in a sergeant's uniform with an inscription above his head in the top right corner.

Date: 1943

Maker: Feininger, T. Lux, 1910-2011 (Photographer)

Material: black-and-white photographs, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 248435

Accession Number: 1984.58.36

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Photographic portrait depicting the head and shoulders of a man (Josef Albers) in a suit and tie. A small piece of paper with the inscription Albers in black ink is affixed to the photograph below Albers's face; second inscription in white ink in bottom left corner of photograph.

Date: 1943

Maker: Albers, Josef, 1888-1976 (Artist)

Material: black-and-white photographs, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 248436

Accession Number: 1984.58.40

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Black and white photograph depicts woman (Anni Albers) seated surrounded by many large spools of thread.

Date: 1943

Maker: Albers, Anni (Artist)

Material: black-and-white photographs, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 248437

Accession Number: 1984.58.41

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Wood block print depicting buildings; pasted to black and white dotted card; print signed and dated.

Date: 1943

Maker: Feininger, Lyonel Charles, 1871-1956 (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, pencils (drawing and writing equipment)

GUSN: 248438

Accession Number: 1984.58.48

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Card depicts handprint on a background with German inscription, black handprint on blue, red and yellow background; protractor in front.

Date: 1943

Maker: Schawinsky, Xanti (American painter, photographer, and illustrator, 1940-1979) (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, paint (coating), protractors

GUSN: 248439

Accession Number: 1984.58.49

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Photograph depicts a group of young men and women with an inscription.

Date: 1943

Maker: Feininger, Andreas Bernhard Lyonel, 1906-1999 (Artist)

Material: photographs

GUSN: 248440

Accession Number: 1984.58.50

Table

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 248441

Accession Number: 1984.499

Trinket Box

Ceramic box with lid; painted decoration.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 248442

Accession Number: 1969.1203

Dining Table

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 248443

Accession Number: 1969.1256

Curtains

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 248444

Accession Number: 1969.1667

Table Mat

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 248445

Accession Number: 1969.2566

Curtain

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 248446

Accession Number: 1969.3323

Curtain

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 248447

Accession Number: 1969.3384

Textile Fragment

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 248448

Accession Number: 1969.3385

Textile

Bolt of fabric plus some fragmetns. Bold floral print on an apricot and cream ground. Fabric was used in the Drawing Room.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 248449

Accession Number: 1969.3386

Pewter Chamberstick

Pewter chamberstick with laterally positioned injectors; saucer-like bobecheon ringed cylindrical shaft with injector and bulbous base on deep circular drip pan with fingerhold ring and disc-shaped rest.

Date: 1800-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: pewter (tin alloy), tin alloy

GUSN: 248451

Accession Number: 1991.1318.1

Textile

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 248452

Accession Number: 1969.3419

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Pieces of patterned textiles mounted to off-white mat with pencil inscription.

Date: 1953

Maker: Leischner, Margaret, 1908-1970 (Artist)

Material: cloth, paper (fiber product), graphite pencils

GUSN: 247118

Accession Number: 1984.54.11

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Print in black ink on tissue paper with chalk embellishment and handwritten message.

Date: 1953

Maker: unknown

Material: ink, chalk, tissue paper, paper (fiber product), pencils (drawing and writing equipment)

GUSN: 247119

Accession Number: 1984.54.12

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

An abstract drawing in black with overlays of blue, yellow-green, and white paint and a thin solid black line at the bottom and artist's signature.

Date: 1953

Maker: Berenbrock, Otto, 1907-1985 (Artist)

Material: drawings (visual works), painting (image-making), ink, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 247120

Accession Number: 1984.54.13

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Collage with a print with blue, yellow, orange, and pink chalk and paint embellishments mounted on paper and a handwritten inscription

Date: 1953

Maker: Teltcher, George Adams, 1904-1983 (Artist)

Material: prints (visual works), ink, paint (coating), chalk, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 247121

Accession Number: 1984.54.14

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Black and white printed image, possibly of a charcoal drawing depicting a row of tall trees. Mounted on white card.

Date: 1953

Maker: Tery-Buschmann, Margit, 1892-1977 (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 247122

Accession Number: 1984.54.15

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Two black and white photographic prints with handwritten inscriptions.

Date: 1953

Maker: Hoffmann, Hans (Artist)

Material: photographic prints, ink, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 247124

Accession Number: 1984.54.16

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Black and white photograph of a larger, multi-story building and a smaller, square building, surrounded by tall trees. Possibly depicts the Basler Sanatorium in Davos. Photograph is mounted on white card with an inscription in black ink at the left of the photograph.

Date: 1953

Maker: Egeler, Ernst, 1908-1978 (Artist)

Material: photographic paper, paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 247125

Accession Number: 1984.54.17

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Black print on white paper mounted on white cards; edges of card are darkened. Print may depict a stylized bridge with other architecture in the background. Inscriptions at bottom left and right corners of print.

Date: 1953

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), printing ink

GUSN: 247126

Accession Number: 1984.54.18

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Four black-and-white photographs affixed to yellow paper affixed to off-white mat. Photographs depict architectural models. Typed inscription along left edge and in lower right hand corner of yellow paper, including artist's signature.

Date: 1953

Maker: Debus, Maximillian, 1904-1981

Material: paper (fiber product), photographic paper, ink

GUSN: 247127

Accession Number: 1984.54.19

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Black and white image affixed to abstract ink drawing. Drawing also features dripped and splattered ink. Handwritten inscription in black ink between lines of the drawing.

Date: 1953

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 247129

Accession Number: 1984.54.21

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Collage of black and white photographic prints, typed text, blue paper, and oil pastel with a handwritten message

Date: 1953

Maker: Mitscherlich, Immeke Alexandra Schollman, 1899-1985 (Artist)

Material: oil pastels, photographic prints, paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 247130

Accession Number: 1984.54.22

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

A birthday card composed of two photographic prints with an inscription.

Date: 1953

Maker: Rauh, G. (Artist)

Material: black-and-white prints (photographs), ink

GUSN: 247132

Accession Number: 1984.54.23

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Collage of black and white photograph and architectural drawings of a "gastehaus" (guesthouse), business card, and black and white photograph of a man mounted on a red-brown mat. Cut pieces of text indicate date and recipient. Small cut image of flowers is affixed above the photograph of a man in th...

Date: 1953

Maker: Singer, Franz, 1896-1954 (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 247134

Accession Number: 1984.54.24

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Collage of black and white photographs and business card from the Royal College of Art. Handwritten inscription on card and in lower right corner of collage. Photographs depict metal objects and a man working at a workstation.

Date: 1953

Maker: Slutzky, Naum J., 1894-1965 (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 247135

Accession Number: 1984.54.25

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

A collage composed of four layers: a woven textile on top, black and white photograph, a handwritten letter with photograph, and a drawing.

Date: 1953

Maker: Maass, Luise Leonore, 1888-1954 (Artist)

Material: wool (textile), photographic prints, ink, pencils (drawing and writing equipment), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 247136

Accession Number: 1984.54.26

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Collage with painting with handwritten message on cream paper matted on black paper background.

Date: 1953

Maker: Graeff, Werner, 1901-1978 (Artist)

Material: paint (coating), pencils (drawing and writing equipment), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 247137

Accession Number: 1984.54.27

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Collage with photographs embellished with paint and a handwritten and printed messages

Date: 1953

Maker: Muller, Hermann and Gerda (Artist)

Material: photographic prints, ink, pencils (drawing and writing equipment), paint (coating)

GUSN: 247138

Accession Number: 1984.54.29

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

A collage on blue paper with a teal, white, and black patterned textile at top, paper and textile shapes on strings drawn in ink, and a handwritten message in a pink paper frame.

Date: 1953

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink, textiles

GUSN: 247140

Accession Number: 1984.54.30

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Collage with a print and handwritten message.

Date: 1953

Maker: Herzger, Walter, 1901-1985 (Artist)

Material: ink, prints (visual works), paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 247141

Accession Number: 1984.54.31

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Photographic print of leaves with handwritten message

Date: 1953

Maker: Dearstyne, Howard, 1903-1979 (Artist)

Material: photographic prints, ink, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 247143

Accession Number: 1984.54.32

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Black and white photograph of ceramic vessels mounted on black mat. Typed message on white card affixed to reverse of mat.

Date: 1953

Maker: Zogler, Render (Artist)

Material: photographic paper, paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 247144

Accession Number: 1984.54.33

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Black and white printed image depicting a book titled "Physical Planning in Israel" by author Arieh Sharon lying on top of a photograph of a building. Handwritten inscription to Walter Gropius from artist located in gray border to the left of image.

Date: 1953

Maker: Sharon, Arieh, 1900-1984 (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 247145

Accession Number: 1984.54.34

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Black and white printed image, with abstract geometric shapes and text, mounted on off-white mat. Inscription handwritten on mat below image and along left edge of mat.

Date: 1953

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), ink

GUSN: 247146

Accession Number: 1984.54.35

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Black-and-white photographic print of artwork featuring a dynamic human stick figure with a handwritten message on the bottom of the print.

Date: 1953

Maker: Itten, Johannes, 1888-1967 (Artist)

Material: photographic prints, ink, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 247148

Accession Number: 1984.54.36

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Collage with a photographic print, an abstract drawing, and a handwritten message

Date: 1953

Maker: Reichle, Paul (Artist)

Material: photographic prints, drawings (visual works), ink, paper (fiber product), pencils (drawing and writing equipment), charcoal (plant material)

GUSN: 247149

Accession Number: 1984.54.37

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Abstract oil pastel drawing with artist's signature

Date: 1953

Maker: unknown

Material: pastels (visual works), pencils (drawing and writing equipment)

GUSN: 247150

Accession Number: 1984.54.38

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

A collage with a photographic print of a man layered on top of a photographic print of a model of complex of buildings, a handwritten signature, and a strip of red and white striped paper.

Date: 1953

Maker: Hassenpflug, Gustav, 1907-1977 (Artist)

Material: photographic prints, ink, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 247151

Accession Number: 1984.54.39

Walter Gropius Birthday Card

Collage of black and white photographic prints with a business card in top left corner

Date: 1953

Maker: Barthelmess, Claus, 1900- (Artist)

Material: photographic prints, business cards, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 247152

Accession Number: 1984.54.40

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