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The Dallas Museum of Art is presenting ‘The First Bauhaus Portfolio,’ a display devoted to a selection of works from the Bauhaus school’s first printed portfolio, released in 1922. The portfolio is part of the museum’s collection and has been held by the DMA for more than 20 years.
The display focuses on the portfolio’s printed works and the role of the Bauhaus printing workshop, which was run by the artist Lyonel Feininger. The presentation provides a view of the school’s early printmaking activity through works preserved in the Dallas museum’s holdings.
Among the works included is Gerhard Marcks’s ‘The Cats (Die Katzen),’ a woodcut dated 1921. The work predates the portfolio’s 1922 release and represents the woodcut medium within the selection.
Feininger’s involvement connects the display to the workshop responsible for producing the portfolio. The presentation also identifies the portfolio as the Bauhaus school’s first printed portfolio, placing the selected works at an early point in the institution’s printed output.
The Dallas Museum of Art has not provided event dates in the supplied exhibition information. The display is presented through the museum’s art-exhibition programme and draws exclusively on works from its collection, including Marcks’s 1921 woodcut ‘The Cats (Die Katzen).’
