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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR72.4
People
Max Klinger, German (Leipzig, Germany 1857 - 1920 Grossjena, near Naumburg, Germany)
Title
Study for the "Beethoven Monument"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1897
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/222745

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and pink and white opaque watercolor on brown wove paper
Dimensions
irregular: 65.1 x 50.1 cm (25 5/8 x 19 3/4 in.)
frame: 84.1 × 68.9 cm (33 1/8 × 27 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower right, black chalk: MK
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite(?): Hans (or Klaus) Meyer

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Shepherd Gallery, New York], sold; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1972

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase in honor of David Farmer
Accession Year
1972
Object Number
BR72.4
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 205
  • Sebastian Schütze, Friedrich Nietzsche and the Artists of the New Weimar, exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, 2019), cat. no. 21, repr., p. 28

Exhibition History

  • 19th-Century German Drawings and Watercolors, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 07/01/1981 - 08/31/1981
  • From the Realists to the Expressionists: Works on Paper by Central European Artists from 1870 to 1918, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/14/1983 - 04/29/1983
  • 19th-Century Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/01/1983 - 10/09/1983
  • Before Expressionism: Art in Germany circa 1903, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/24/2003 - 02/15/2004
  • Flowers of Evil: Symbolist Drawings, 1870–1910, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2016 - 08/14/2016
  • Friedrich Nietzsche and the Artists of the New Weimar, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 04/18/2019 - 08/25/2019

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