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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1995.239.7.A-B
People
Adolf Luther, German (Krefeld, Germany 1912 - 1990 Krefeld, Germany)
Title
Light and Material, from "Art Scene Düsseldorf"
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Art Scene Düsseldorf
Original Language Title: Licht und Materie from "Art Scene Düsseldorf"
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1971
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/218674

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Mixed media and cardboard
Dimensions
40.1 x 40.1 cm (15 13/16 x 15 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on verso of 1995.239.7.A, in black fiber-tip ink at u.l.: Luther 7i
  • inscription: on verso of 1995.239.7.A, at l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: 4/150
  • stamp: on verso of 1995.239.7.A, at u.l., red ink: LUTHER / LIGHT u. MATERIE (rectangular stamp)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
4 / 150

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Willy and Charlotte Reber Collection, Louise Haskell Daly Fund
Copyright
© Adolf Luther / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1995
Object Number
1995.239.7.A-B
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Patricia Berman, "Art Scene Düsseldorf: The Performative Print", Two and One: Printmaking in Germany, 1945-1990, ed. Anja Chávez, Davis Museum at Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts, 2003), pp. 63-78
  • Anja Chávez, ed., Two and One: Printmaking in Germany, 1945-1990, exh. cat., Davis Museum at Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts, 2003), cat. no. 31, color illus.

Exhibition History

  • Two and One: Printmaking in Germany 1945-1990, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, 10/09/2003 - 01/18/2004

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