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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1991.52
People
Otto Steinert, German (Saarbrücken, Germany 1915 - 1978 Essen, Germany)
Title
Streetlights on Place de la Concorde 3
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Lampen der Place de la Concorde 3
Alternate Title: Luminogramm 2
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1952
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221464

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 24.1 x 34 cm (9 1/2 x 13 3/8 in.)
sheet: 24.6 x 34.6 cm (9 11/16 x 13 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, c., blue ink: FOTO U. COPYRIGHT // PROF. DR. OTTO STEINERT [underlined in red pencil] // ESSEN - BREDENEY // GRAF - BERNADOTTE-STR. 27
  • inscription: verso, c., black ink, in artist's hand: - Luminogram - // 1952
  • inscription: verso, u.r., black ink, in artist's hand: [arrow pointing upward] Bittle den schwarzen // Rond mit klischieren
  • inscription: verso, u.r., graphite: Camera 10 [underlined] // OFFSET
  • inscription: verso, c., graphite,: Bildbreite 18,7 cm [underlined]
  • inscription: verso, c., graphite: 22 [encircled]
  • inscription: verso, l.r., graphite: CKE 97 T
  • inscription: verso, l.c., graphite: 80/05 006

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
© Marlis Steinert, Thônex
Accession Year
1991
Object Number
1991.52
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Peter Nisbet and Emilie Norris, Busch-Reisinger Museum: History and Holdings, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1991), p. 98, ill.
  • Otto Steinert, Der Fotograf Otto Steinert, exh. cat., ed. Ute Eskildsen, Steidl (Göttingen, 1999), p. 102
  • 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. 62
  • John J. Curley, A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2013), pp. 31-32, fig. 15, ill.
  • Lynette Roth, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 403-405, cat. no. 59.2, ill. (b/w)

Exhibition History

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