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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1989.60.5
People
Kurt Löw, German (Vienna, Austria 1914 - 1980 Vienna, Austria)
Karl Bodek, German (Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine) 1905 - 1942 Auschwitz, Poland)
Title
Swiss Aid, from the portfolio "Camp de Gurs"
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Secours Suisse, aus "Camp de Gurs"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1941
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221590

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
23.6 x 31.1 cm (9 5/16 x 12 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite at l.r.: L + B / LÖW + BODEK
  • inscription: on verso at u.l., graphite, handwritten: ca...[illegible]
  • inscription: l.l., graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: Secours Suisse

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Howard L. Brooks
Accession Year
1989
Object Number
1989.60.5
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
paper possibly VELIN S.A.V.

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