A large flat fish on a table in front of a wall of sculptor’s tools
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

A high contrast black and white photograph shows a wall with three horizontal rows of small wooden tools used for modeling clay. Flush against the wall, they hang vertically in the loops of a wall mounted rack, with the longest ones in the top row, and smaller tools below. In the foreground, just in front of the wall, we are looking down at the surface of a table. On it is a large inky black square in the middle of which is a large flat fish with a narrow tail at left, and a face obscured in shadow at right.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1991.49
People
Otto Steinert, German (Saarbrücken, Germany 1915 - 1978 Essen, Germany)
Title
Still Life with Fish
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Stilleben mit Fisch
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1958
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221498

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 40 x 30.3 cm (15 3/4 x 11 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • stamp: verso, c., purple ink: Sammlung // Erich vom Endt

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
1991.49
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Otto Steinert, Der Fotograf Otto Steinert, exh. cat., ed. Ute Eskildsen, Steidl (Göttingen, 1999), p. 170

Exhibition History

  • Aspects of Art in West Germany, 1945-1965, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 08/22/1992 - 10/18/1992
  • 32Q: 1110 , Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/12/2017 - 04/12/2018

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