- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- BR72.4
- People
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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
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- 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
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- Signed: lower right, black chalk: MK
- inscription: verso, lower left, graphite(?): Hans (or Klaus) Meyer
- Provenance
- [Shepherd Gallery, New York], sold; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1972
- Acquisition and Rights
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- 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
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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
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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
Friedrich Nietzsche and the Artists of the New Weimar, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 04/18/2019 - 08/25/2019
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