"What Will I Do with It?" | Harvard Art Museums

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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
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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

Verification Level

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