1992.210: "Where Is There Room for Me ..."

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1992.210

People

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

Title

"Where Is There Room for Me ..."

Other Titles

Original Language Title: "Wo ist Platz für mich ..."

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1948

Places

Creation Place: Europe, German Democratic Republic

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/221160

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and gray wash on cream wove paper

Dimensions

irregular: 75 x 52.5 cm (29 1/2 x 20 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: in black ink at l.r.: W Sitte 1948
• inscription: l.l., black ink, German, in artist's hand: "Wo ist Platz für mich ..."

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

1992.210

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 161, cat. no. 113, b/w ill.
• Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 57

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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