1992.209: "What Will I Do with It?"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1992.209

People

Willi Sitte, German (Kratznau, Bohemia (now Chrastnava, Czech Republic) 1921 - 2013 Halle, Germany)

Title

"What Will I Do with It?"

Other Titles

Original Language Title: "Was mache ich damit?"

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1947

Places

Creation Place: Europe, German Democratic Republic

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/220976

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

75 x 50.5 cm (29 1/2 x 19 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: in black ink at l.r.: W Sitte 1947
• inscription: l.l., black ink, German, in artist's hand: "Was mache ich damit?"

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1992

Object Number

1992.209

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

pen and black ink drawing of nude on verso

Publication History

• Erika Gemar Költzsch, German Marks: Postwar Drawings and Prints Donated to the Busch-Reisinger Museum through the German Art Dealers Association, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), p. 160, cat. no. 112, b/w ill.

Exhibition History

• Figurative Art in West Germany from 1960 to 1980, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 12/01/1993 - 02/01/1994

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