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Drawing, Textile Design: Fixstern (Fixed Star)
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Maria Likarz-Strauss and made for Wiener Werkstätte. It is dated 1923 and we acquired it in 1988. Its medium is brush and gouache 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
6.4 × 20.6 cm (2 1/2 × 8 1/8 in.) Mat: 31.4 × 45.1 cm (12 3/8 × 17 3/4 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in black ink, lower right: Dessin: "Fixstern"
Cite this object as
Drawing, Textile Design: Fixstern (Fixed Star); Designed by Maria Likarz-Strauss (Austrian, b. Poland, 1893–1971); Made for Wiener Werkstätte (Austria); Austria; brush and gouache on paper; 6.4 × 20.6 cm (2 1/2 × 8 1/8 in.) Mat: 31.4 × 45.1 cm (12 3/8 × 17 3/4 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds; 1988-62-849
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Glass of the Avant-Garde: From Vienna Secession to Bauhaus.