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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1991.53
People
Ruth Hallensleben, German (Cologne, Germany 1898 - 1977 Cologne, Germany)
Title
Untitled (Advertising Photograph of Wallpaper by Pickhardt & Siebert, Gummersbach)
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Ohne Titel (Werbefotografie für Tapeten von Pickhardt & Siebert, Gummersbach)
Former Title: Wallpaper by Pickhardt & Siebert, Gummersbach
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1955
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221229

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 23.3 x 17.2 cm (9 3/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
sheet: 23.7 x 17.7 cm (9 5/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • stamp: on verso at u.r., blue ink, German: Aufnahme gesetzl. geschützt, // Sammelbezeichnung // nicht gestattet // Jedesmalige Reproduktion // nur mit Genehmigung und // Autorenangabe: // Ruth Hallensleben Köln
  • stamp: on verso at u.r., blue ink, German: Ruth Hallensleben GDL // Lichtbildwerkstätte // Wiehl (Bez. Köln)
  • inscription: on verso at l.r., graphite, handwritten: RK
  • inscription: on verso at l.r., graphite, handwritten: P8306103

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The Cultural Council in the Federation of German Industry, gift; Harvard University Art Museums, 1991

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of The Cultural Council in the Federation of German Industry
Copyright
© Photo archive Ruhr Museum Essen
Accession Year
1991
Object Number
1991.53
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Von der Heydt-Museum, ed., Ruth Hallensleben (1898-1977). Industriephotographie, exh. cat. (Wuppertal, Germany, 1983), no p., no cat. no., b/w ill.
  • Lynette Roth, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 393-394, 396, cat. no. 57.3, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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