REACHING THE STARS, 1922
LUDWIG HIRSCHFELD-MACK
colour lithograph on paper
42.0 x 31.5 cm (image) 68.5 x 50.0 cm (sheet)
The estate of the artist
Private collection, Italy
Two masters of the Weimar Bauhaus: Lyonel Feininger, Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 4 July – 19 August 1974, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 29 August – 6 October 1974, cat. 55 (another example)
The edge of the world, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 5 July – 25 August 1985 (another example)
Prints in Germany 1880 – 1940, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 October 1989 – 7 January 1990 (another example)
Bauhaus e visioni, Museum of Modern Art, Bolzano, Vienna, 17 March – 28 May 2000; Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna, Austria, 14 June – 22 October 2000 and Jewish Museum Frankfurt, Germany, 13 December 2000 – 22 April 2001, cat. 53 (as ‘Sterntänzer (Reaching the Stars)’)
Bauhaus and Expressionism: German prints and drawings from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, 4 March – 15 May 2005 (another example)
Modern Times, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 23 March – 12 July 2009 (another example)
The Mad Square: Modernity in German Art 1910 – 1937, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 5 August – 6 November 2011 and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 25 November 2011 – 4 March 2012 (another example)
Bauhaus Now!, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne, 26 July – 21 October 2019 (another example)
Draffin, N., Two masters of the Weimar Bauhaus: Lyonel Feininger, Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1974, p9. 40, 55 (illus., another example)
Draffin, N., Prints in Germany 1880 – 1940, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1989, p. 4
Stasny, P., Ludwig Hirschfeld–Mack: Bauhaus e visioni, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany, 2000, cat. 53, pp. 62, 63 (illus., as ‘Sterntänzer (Reaching the Stars)’)
Strecker, J., The Mad Square: Modernity in German Art 1910 – 1937, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2011
Schwarzbauer, R., and Bell, C., Ludwig Hirschfeld–Mack: More than a Bauhaus Artist, HistorySmiths, 2021, pl. 3, p. 182 (illus. another example)