1992.91.9: Field Sound of Your Meadowsteps: Traces, Closeness to the Earth-Hollow, from the portfolio "From the Hill Country"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1992.91.9

People

Gerhard Altenbourg, German (Rödlichen-Schnepfenthal, Germany 1926 - 1989 Meissen, Germany)

Title

Field Sound of Your Meadowsteps: Traces, Closeness to the Earth-Hollow, from the portfolio "From the Hill Country"

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: From the Hill Country
Original Language Title: Deiner Wiesentritte Felder-Klang: Spuren, Mulden-Nähe, aus "Aus dem Hügelgau"

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1987

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/219285

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Drypoint printed in black ink on off-white laid paper

Technique

Drypoint

Dimensions

plate: 20 x 24.6 cm (7 7/8 x 9 11/16 in.)
sheet: 39 x 53.5 cm (15 3/8 x 21 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: in gray ink at l.r.: Altenbourg; initialled in gray ink at l.r.: GA
• inscription: l.l., gray ink, German, in artist's hand: Deiner Wiesentritte / Felder-Klang: / Spuren, Mulden-Nähe
• inscription: l.l., gray ink, in artist's hand: 10/12
• inscription: l.r., gray ink, in artist's hand: 1987
• blind stamp: l.r.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Galerie Brusberg through the German Art Dealers Association

Accession Year

1992

Object Number

1992.91.9

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

portfolio dated 1989

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• 1992.91

  Gerhard Altenbourg

  From the Hill Country

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