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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1992.161
People
Karl Hofer, German (Karlsruhe, Germany 1878 - 1955 Berlin, Germany)
Title
Man in a Boat
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Mann im Boot
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1954
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221273

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and gray wash on cream wove paper
Dimensions
50 x 40 cm (19 11/16 x 15 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: initialled in black ink at l.r.: CH
  • stamp: on verso, at l.r., black ink, German: [stamped:] Nachlass Karl Hofer Nr. / [by hand:] N-2137 [estate stamp]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of the Artist's Estate through the German Art Dealers Association
Accession Year
1992
Object Number
1992.161
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
graphite lines at four corners
on verso, graphite sketch of a group of figures

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. 55, cat. no. 7, b/w ill.
  • Lynette Roth, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 245-247, cat. no. 27.2, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

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