Play Goethe

Work on Paper

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DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Play Goethe

Entry/Object ID

2009.170

Description

The poster depicts a man’s face, looking downward, with a black bird bursting from his forehead. The background is deep blue, and the bird is black and framed by feathers. On top of the bird’s head, is the ballet’s title and other pertinent information. Ballet. Theater.

Artwork Details

Medium

Offset lithograph

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul University, gift of Patricia Rosenberg

Made/Created

Artist

Wieslaw Walkuski

Date made

1990

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Country

Poland

Continent

Europe

Notes

Europe Polish Europe, Polish

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Location

TC

Transcription

Play Goethe, Ein ballet spektakel, der landesbuhne gera

Language

German

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Poster, Theater

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Poster

Nomenclature Class

Advertising Media

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

posters, information artifacts, information forms (objects)

Hierarchy Name

Information Forms (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)

Facet

Objects Facet

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Theater posters

Search Terms

poster

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Poster

Class

WORKS ON PAPER

Dimensions

Dimension Description

sheet

Width

23-1/8 in

Length

34 in