Curtain Panel

Description

The family-owned firm of Johan Backhausen & Söhne produced the majority of the Weiner Werkstätte’s early textiles. Although we don’t know who designed this ombré blue wave pattern, it is similar to work by Dagobert Peche. He used this shading effect in many of his textile designs for the workshop.

Provenance

Barry Friedman, New York, by Dec. 4, 1990 [incoming receipt RX18704, Dec. 4, 1990; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991.

Curtain Panel

Johann Backhausen und Söhne

c. 1915

Accession Number

152997

Medium

Cotton, plain weave; screenprinted

Dimensions

209.4 × 101 cm (83 3/8 × 39 3/4 in.); Point repeat: H.: 14.6 cm (5 3/4 in.)

Classification

textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Robert Allerton Endowment