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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1992.93
People
Gerhard Altenbourg, German (Rödlichen-Schnepfenthal, Germany 1926 - 1989 Meissen, Germany)
Title
Nymph
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Nymphe
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1950
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221158

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph on off-white modern laid paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
plate: 38 x 27 cm (14 15/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
sheet: 58.3 x 40.6 cm (22 15/16 x 16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on verso in black ink at l.l.: Gerhard Altenbourg
  • inscription: l.l., black ink, German, in artist's hand: Nympha
  • inscription: l.l., black ink, in artist's hand: 50
  • blind stamp: l.r.
  • inscription: l.r., black ink, in artist's hand: GA
  • inscription: on verso in graphite at l. r.: 22
  • label: removed from backing board: Gerhard Altenbourg / "nympha", 1950 / Lithografie / 58 x 40,5 cm

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Mehnert 106 Janda L27

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Dieter Brusberg through the German Art Dealers Association
Accession Year
1992
Object Number
1992.93
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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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. 164, cat. no. 122, no ill.
  • Annegret Janda, Gerhard Altenbourg: Monographie und Werkverzeichnis, ed. Lindenau-Museum, Wienand Verlag (Cologne, Germany, 2004), p. 358, cat. no. L27, b/w ill.
  • Lynette Roth, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 263-265, cat. no. 31.2, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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