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Close up of bare vines and shadows climbing a concrete wall

An irregular tangled grid is formed by thin vines that grow upwards in crooked lines, and the shadows they cast on a rough concrete wall. The vines are suspended by two thin wires stretching horizontally, one near the top and one near the bottom of the piece. Bright sunlight shines from the left, and the shadows appear slightly wider and slightly to the right of each vine, with some space between, in which the gritty texture of the wall is cast in sharp relief.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1992.47
People
Toni Schneiders, German (1920 - 2006)
Title
Mobile Plane
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Bewegte Fläche
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1954
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221117

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
30 x 40 cm (11 13/16 x 15 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on verso in graphite at l.r.: Toni Schneiders
  • inscription: on verso at u.r., graphite, handwritten: 172/1
  • inscription: on verso at u.r., graphite, handwritten: 22.3.1954
  • stamp: on verso at u.r., red ink: FOTO UND COPYRIGHT // TONI SCHNEIDERS // LINDAU-SCHACHEN // BADSTRASSE 3 * TEL 401 // Germany [handwritten in graphite]
  • inscription: on verso at c., graphite, handwritten: "Bewegte Fläche"

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of The Cultural Council in the Federation of German Industry
Copyright
© Toni Schneiders
Accession Year
1992
Object Number
1992.47
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • Aspects of Art in West Germany, 1945-1965, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 08/22/1992 - 10/18/1992
  • 32Q: 1110 Mid-Century Abstraction II (Post-Painterly Abstraction), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/12/2017 - 04/12/2018

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