BR74.30: Wrestlers, from the portfolio "New European Graphics, Portfolio V: German Artists"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR74.30

People

Max Beckmann, German (Leipzig, Germany 1884 - 1950 New York, N.Y., USA)

Title

Wrestlers, from the portfolio "New European Graphics, Portfolio V: German Artists"

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Die Ringer; Ringkampf, aus Bauhaus Mappe "Neue Europäische Graphik, 5. Mappe: Deutsche Künstler"

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1921

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/222313

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Drypoint printed in black ink on off-white laid paper

Technique

Drypoint

Dimensions

plate: 20.7 x 14.7 cm (8 1/8 x 5 13/16 in.)
sheet: 30.3 x 26.7 cm (11 15/16 x 10 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: in graphite at l.r. of platemark: Beckmann
• blind stamp: l.l., German: Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar
• inscription: l.l., blue pencil, handwritten: Baumeister (crossed out in graphite)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Hofmaier 201 B b; Wingler V/1

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mrs. Walter Gropius

Accession Year

1974

Object Number

BR74.30

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• James Hofmaier, Max Beckmann. Catalogue raisonné of his Prints: Volume 2: Numbers 180-373, Gallery Kornfeld (Bern, Switzerland, 1990), no. 201, b/w illus. p. 523

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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