1992.99: Linear Figures with Giants
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1992.99
- People
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Willi Baumeister, German (Stuttgart, Germany 1889 - 1955 Stuttgart, Germany)
- Title
- Linear Figures with Giants
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Linienfiguren mit Riesen
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1949
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/221422
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Charcoal, stumped, and pastel on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 31.3 x 48.4 cm (12 5/16 x 19 1/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: in graphite at l.l.: Baumeister
- inscription: l.l., graphite, German, in artist's hand: für Heisig 2/3 49
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Ponert 1905
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
- 1992.99
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Dietmar Jürgen Ponert, Willi Baumeister: Werkverzeichnis der Zeichnungen Gouachen und Collagen, DuMont (Köln, Germany, 1988), cat. no. 1905
- 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. 21, 92, cat. no. 45, ill. (color & b/w)
Exhibition History
- Aspects of Art in West Germany, 1945-1965, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 08/22/1992 - 10/18/1992
Verification Level
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