1991.52: Streetlights on Place de la Concorde 3
Photographs
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1991.52
- People
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Otto Steinert, German (Saarbrücken, Germany 1915 - 1978 Essen, Germany)
- Title
- Streetlights on Place de la Concorde 3
- Other Titles
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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
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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
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- 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
- Permissions
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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
- Aspects of Art in West Germany, 1945-1965, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 08/22/1992 - 10/18/1992
- Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/09/2018 - 06/03/2018
Verification Level
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