A postcard with a pink and blue background. There is a grey figure in the center of the background in a pose. The right arm is bent doing a salute while the left arm is bent with the hand sticking up in the air. The right leg is straight while the left leg is bent in a kneeling position. The figure also has a red heart on the left side of the chest. There is a pink bridge the lower part of the postcard with a black and white ship expelling smoke through its smokestack.

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Object Timeline

	We acquired this object.
1926	Work on this object began.
2019	We photographed this object. We photographed this object. We exhibited this object.
2024	You found it!

Postcard, Grösse Brücken Revue (Great Bridge Revue)

This is a Postcard. It was published by Bauhaus.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Merrill Berman as part of Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master.

It is dated 1926. Its medium is lithograph. It is a part of the department.

It is credited Collection of Merrill C. Berman.

Drawing, Study of a Mechanical Figure
brush and gouache, graphite on cream paper.
Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
1963-39-913

Drawing, Design for an Advertisement
graphite, brush and gouache on paper.
Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
1963-39-911

Here we have a poster with building scene portrayed through an architectural perspective and technical drawing style, using parallel diagonal lines. It includes bold text framing the whole poster and accented red, yellow, and blue. These black and white rectangular, squared, diagonal lines create buildings on a street: the buildings in the middle ground have minimal decoration save for rectangular windows and gray gradation for the walls. Set against a blue sky fading from light blue to dark are are two buildings in the background. They are taller and skyscraper-like, the central having three rows of wide windows, the other on the left being represented only by a three-dimensional rectangle, and no discerning building features except for gradient black to gray wall. On the right side of the poster is the actual foreground, showing the inside of a building's interior, as if the outer wall were cut away for the viewing. The interior cuts into two floors: the most visible floor has a chair, radiator, desk, windows, floor, ceiling, and back wall. The interior's back wall is the accented red color and runs vertically to a barely visible floor beneath. In the visible interior, the floor is the accented yellow color. The top framing text is in black and white, sans serif bold font and reads [Akademisk Arkitektforening, Bygge og Bolig]. Along the right edge is a stout word in the same font [Dstilling]. Mirrored on the left side in a bold but thinner font reads [13end til 29 en de September aaben fra 10 til 10]. The bottom text, in bold serif font reads [FORUM] and tiny, small words to the left reading [chr. cato] and to the right [IB ANDERSON].

Poster, Bygge og Bolig Udstilling (Exhibition of Buildings and Homes), 1929
lithograph on paper.
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2018-22-32

Its dimensions are

H x W: 15.2 × 10.5 cm (6 in. × 4 1/8 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/4wUsw4/
Accession Number 15.2019.30
Object ID 2318800215