1996.10: Immermann Street

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1996.10

People

Paul Klee, Swiss (Münchenbuchsee near Bern, Switzerland 1879 - 1940 Muralto-Locarno, Switzerland)

Title

Immermann Street

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Immermannstrasse

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1939

Culture

Swiss

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/222394

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gouache on paper on burlap

Dimensions

94.8 x 70.5 cm (37 5/16 x 27 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.r.: Klee
• label: crossbar at l.: Nierendorf Gallery / 18 East 57th Street New York City / Artist: PAUL KLEE / Title: IMMERMANNSTRASSE / No. 317
• label: crossbar at c.: Buchholz Gallery / Curt Valentin / 32 East 57th Street, New York / TITLE & YEAR IMMERMANN STREET, 1939 / ARTIST PAUL KLEE / MEDIUM & SIZE GOUACHE & WATERCOLOER, 37 1/2 X 27 1/2 / NO. 5316
• label: on crossbar, black ink: Coll. / Lois Orswell / Narragansett / R.I.
• stamp: on each stretcher member, black ink: Schneider Farbwaren / Bern
• stamp: on each stretcher member, black ink: 95 ; 70 (dimensions; from 1947 RISD exhibition (RISD Museum Bulletin)
• label: on crossbar at l., ink, typewritten: 034.47.11 / Orswell
• inscription: on stretcher at u.l., graphite: 13 Imer . . . [illeg.]
• inscription: on stretcher at u.r., graphite: Immermannstr. [?]
• inscription: on stretcher (u. crosspiece) at u.c., white chalk: 414-1

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Paul Klee, consigned; to [Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1939]; to [Karl Nierendorf, Nierendorf, New York, 1939]; sold, to Lois Orswell (by 1968-1996);
gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1996.

NOTE: Karl Nierendorf was Klee's exclusive American dealer, per agreement with Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, his European representative. (Fontanella, "Unity in Diversity"
Karl Nierendorf and America, 1937–47, American Art Vol. 24, No.3 p.116)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Lois Orswell Collection

Copyright

© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Accession Year

1996

Object Number

1996.10

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 86, fig. 54, pp 112-113, 321, 373

Exhibition History

• 20th Century Abstract Painting and Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 04/16/1947 - 05/18/1947
• 20th Century Art in New England, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, 05/06/1948 - 06/30/1948
• 19th- and 20th-Century Paintings and Sculpture from the Museum's Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 06/11/1980 - 08/31/1980
• Klee and Kandinsky: Works from the Harvard Collection and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1980 - 01/17/1981
• 20th-Century Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/07/1981 - 11/11/1981
• 19th- and 20th-Century Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/08/1982
• Paul Klee, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/17/1993 - 06/13/1993
• A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions from the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Central and Northern Art and Design from 1880 to the Present, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 04/19/2000 - 07/09/2000
• Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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