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Object Timeline

1911

  • Work on this object began.

1919

  • Work on this object ended.

1988

  • We acquired this object.

2025

  • You found it!

Drawing, Textile Design: Wundervogel [Miraculous Bird], 1911–19

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Heddi Hirsch and made for Wiener Werkstätte. It is dated 1911–19 and we acquired it in 1988. Its medium is brush and gouache, graphite on 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.

Its dimensions are

20.6 × 6.7 cm (8 1/8 × 2 5/8 in.) Mat: 31.8 × 45.1 cm (12 1/2 × 17 3/4 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped in red ink, lower right: WIENER / WERK / STÄTTE

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and black ink on mount below 195 • 196: Dessin: "Wundervogel"; in blue crayon, upper left: 40

Cite this object as

Drawing, Textile Design: Wundervogel [Miraculous Bird], 1911–19; Designed by Heddi Hirsch; Made for Wiener Werkstätte (Austria); brush and gouache, graphite on paper; 20.6 × 6.7 cm (8 1/8 × 2 5/8 in.) Mat: 31.8 × 45.1 cm (12 1/2 × 17 3/4 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds; 1988-62-192

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