BR57.40: Offering Bowl

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR57.40

People

Hans Jaenisch, German (Eilenstedt, Germany 1907 - 1989)

Title

Offering Bowl

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Opferschale
Alternate Title: Composition
Alternate Title: Amrum III

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1956

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/223093

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor on brown wove paper

Dimensions

10.6 x 14.9 cm (4 3/16 x 5 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: in black ink at l.r.: Jae
• inscription: verso, t., graphite, handwritten: 31-
• inscription: verso, t., graphite, handwritten: 25.7.56
• inscription: verso, t., graphite, handwritten: Opferschale

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

The artists, [Kunstverein Hannover], sold; to Charles L. and Hetty Kuhn, 1957, gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1957

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Hetty S. Kuhn

Accession Year

1957

Object Number

BR57.40

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

image on recto of blank postcard
printed postcard format on verso

Publication History

• 118. Frühjahrsausstellung. Kunstverein Hannover, exh. cat., Kunstverein Hannover (Hanover, Germany, 1957), cat. no. 87, no ill.

Exhibition History

• 118. Frühjahrsausstellung, Kunstverein Hannover, 03/17/1957 - 04/22/1957

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