- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- BR61.44
- People
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Carl Buchheister, German (Hanover, Germany 1890 - 1964 Hanover, Germany)
- Title
- Composition with Dot Theme
- Other Titles
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Original Language Title: Komposition mit Punktthema
Former Title: Composition - Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1952
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/222907
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Alkyd and modified oil paint on machine-made laid paper
- Dimensions
- 35.6 x 30.5 cm (14 x 12 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: on verso, in graphite: Carl Buchheister
- inscription: on verso, in graphite: für Axel Dorner// zum 60. Geburtstag 19. Jan. 1953
- inscription: on verso, in graphite: Carl Buchheister Hannover// Komposition mit Punktthema 1952
- inscription: on verso, in graphite: oben
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- Kemp 1952/31
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Lydia Dorner in memory of Dr. Alexander Dorner
- Accession Year
- 1961
- Object Number
- BR61.44
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Willi Kemp, ed., Carl Buchheister. Werkverzeichnis der abstrakten Arbeiten, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König (Cologne, Germany, 1998), p. 258, cat. no. 31
Liz Sorokin, "The Technical Examination of Two Works on Paper by Carl Buchheister in the Collection of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard Art Museums" (2016), pp 1-100 passim
Lynette Roth, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 326-328, cat. no. 44.1, ill. (color)
- Exhibition History
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Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/09/2018 - 06/03/2018
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