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Drawing, Textile Design: Wasserorgel (Water Organ)
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Carl Otto Czeschka and made for Wiener Werkstätte. It is dated 1910–12 and we acquired it in 1988. Its medium is brush and gouache on white wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds.
- Sculpture, Sheila, from the Afreaks series
- glass beads, wire, wood, mixed fiber stuffing, and cast bronze.
- Courtesy of R & Company, New York and The Haas Brothers, Los Angeles.
- 25.2015.7
Its dimensions are
20 x 6.2 cm (7 7/8 x 2 7/16 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and black ink, upper left: WASSERORGEL; in blue crayon, upper right: 331
Cite this object as
Drawing, Textile Design: Wasserorgel (Water Organ); Designed by Carl Otto Czeschka (Austrian, 1878 - 1960); Made for Wiener Werkstätte (Austria); Austria; brush and gouache on white wove paper; 20 x 6.2 cm (7 7/8 x 2 7/16 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds; 1988-62-59
