Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

Description

Lisker was an accomplished painter and designer whose two textile panels shown here couldn't be more unlike, thus suggesting his range as an artist. This one is reminiscent of a nonrepresentational African textile pattern favored in the Kuba culture of the Congo, while the other is a naive winter hunt scene drawn in reserve on a dark blue ground. In 1924 Lisker became professor (later director) at the City Art School in Frankfurt, so his submission of textile patterns to DEWETEX, founded just the year before, was likely done on a freelance basis.

Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

Richard Lisker

c. 1925

Accession Number

35432

Medium

Cotton, plain weave; block printed

Dimensions

200.7 × 79.4 cm (79 × 31 1/4 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)

Classification

textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Robert Allerton