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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR59.123
People
Alfred Kubin, Austrian (Leitmeritz, Bohemia, Austria 1877 - 1959 Zwickledt, near Wernstein am Inn, Austria)
Title
The Wooden City, from the portfolio "Dream Land I"
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Die Stadt aus Holz, aus "Traumland I"
Series/Book Title: Dream Land I
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1922
Culture
Austrian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/222854

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph printed in black ink on cream wove paper mounted to blue wove paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
image: 25.4 x 31.3 cm (10 x 12 5/16 in.)
mount: 34 x 45 cm (13 3/8 x 17 11/16 in.)
sheet: 28 x 38 cm (11 x 14 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in stone at l.r.: A Kubin; in graphite at l.r.: Kubin
  • inscription: in stone, u.c., German, in artist's hand: die Stadt aus Holz ["the wooden city"]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Raabe 168; Hoberg Mappe V/I/11

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Vershbow in memory of Louis W. Black
Copyright
© Alfred Kubin Stiftung / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1959
Object Number
BR59.123
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Annegret Hoberg, Alfred Kubin, das lithographische Werk, Hirmer (Munich, 1999), Mappe V / I / 11, color illus. p. 281

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