BR65.143: The First Day, from the portfolio "The Transformations of God"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR65.143

People

Ernst Barlach, German (Wedel, Germany 1870 - 1938 Rostock, Germany)

Title

The First Day, from the portfolio "The Transformations of God"

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Der erste Tag, aus "Die Wandlungen Gottes"

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1920

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/222712

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Woodcut printed in black in on off-white Japanese paper

Technique

Woodcut

Dimensions

block: 25.7 x 35.8 cm (10 1/8 x 14 1/8 in.)
sheet: 32.2 x 47.7 cm (12 11/16 x 18 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: in graphite at l.r.: EBarlach
• inscription: l.r., graphite, handwritten: NG 18
• inscription: on verso at l.r., graphite, handwritten: Naomi Jackson / Hamilton Canada
• inscription: on verso at l.r., graphite, handwritten: 1 x 1)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Schult 164

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of a friend of the Busch-Reisinger Museum

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

BR65.143

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• Prints and Drawings by Ernst Barlach, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge
• From Impressionism to the Bauhaus: German Master Prints from the Harvard Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 05/19/1981 - 06/29/1981
• Works by Ernst Barlach, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/01/1983 - 08/26/1983

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