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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1992.187
People
Wolfgang Mattheuer, German (Reichenbach, Germany 1927 - 2004 Leipzig, Germany)
Title
Greatness and Misery
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Größe und Elend
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1988
Places
Creation Place: Europe, German Democratic Republic
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221280

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal and black and colored chalks on cream wove paper
Dimensions
70 x 85 cm (27 9/16 x 33 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in black chalk at l.c.: WM/88

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
1992.187
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), pp. 154-155, cat. no. 105, ill. (b/w)

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