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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1989.58.9
People
Werner Büttner, German (Jena, Germany born 1954)
Hubert Kiecol, German (born 1950)
Title
Dresden, from the portfolio "German Cities Before Reconstruction"
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Dresden, aus "Deutsche Städte vor dem Wiederaufbau"
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1988
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221605

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodcut printed in black ink on off-white wove paper
Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
sheet: 54.5 x 83.7 cm (21 7/16 x 32 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite at l.r.: Kiecol; in graphite at l.r.: W. Büttner 88
  • inscription: l.l., graphite, handwritten: 13/17

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Antonia Paepcke DuBrul Fund
Accession Year
1989
Object Number
1989.58.9
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Depicts the silhouette of the Dresden Zwinger.

Publication History

  • Anja Chávez, ed., Two and One: Printmaking in Germany, 1945-1990, exh. cat., Davis Museum at Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts, 2003), cat. no. 47, b/w illus.
  • 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. 32

Exhibition History

  • Two and One: Printmaking in Germany 1945-1990, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, 10/09/2003 - 01/18/2004

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