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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR63.146
People
Wassily Kandinsky, Russian (Moscow, Russia 1866 - 1944 Neuilly-Sur-Seine, France)
Title
Blue Rider Signet (on a letter from Franz Marc to Lyonel Feininger, 1913)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1911
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/184331

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodcut printed in black ink on beige laid paper, inscribed in brown ink, stamped in purple ink
Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
image: 5.9 x 4.6 cm (2 5/16 x 1 13/16 in.)
sheet: 27.6 x 22 cm (10 7/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in brown ink at l.r.: Fr. Marc
  • inscription: recto, brown ink, German: Sehr geehrter Herr Feininger, / Gestatten Sie, daß ich auf Anregung Kubins mich an Sie wende, um sie zur Beschickung [?] des Herbstsalons bei Herrn Walden (Potsdamer St. 134/a) anzuregen. Herr Kubin ...[?] uns ... von Ihren Bildern, daß Sie uns mit Ihrer ... an dieser Ausstellung eine große Freude machen würden. Herr Walden wird Ihnen die Einladung zugehen lassen. Für jeden Aussteller sind 3 mit lauf./... Wandfläche völlig juryfrei gesichert. / Mit einem ... Gruß, auch von Herrn Kubin / Ihr sehr ergb. / Fr. Marc / P.S. daß Ihnen nicht schon früher eine Einladung zuging, lag nur daran, daß niemand unseres engeren[?] Kreises von Ihren Bildern ... erfahren[?], bis uns jetzt Kubin aufmerksam machte .... [a letter from Marc to Feininger inviting him to take part in Herwald Walden’s pioneering "Autumn Salon" at the Sturm Gallery in Berlin 20.9. 1913 - 1.12. 1914. Marc helped with the organization of this show (see Bremen cat. p. 16), so a date of mid-1913 can be assumed. Feininger exhibited 4 pictures – 5 ptgs. according to Hess, p. 305 (see Stationen der Moderne Berlin, exh. cat. 1988, p. 136). Feininger had previously exhibited drawings , 1 ptg. At Secession (1910) and in Paris.]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Julia Feininger
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Accession Year
1963
Object Number
BR63.146
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • Franz Marc and the Blue Rider, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 04/08/2001 - 07/15/2001

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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