BR55.21: At the Edge of the World

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR55.21

People

Alfred Kubin, Austrian (Leitmeritz, Bohemia, Austria 1877 - 1959 Zwickledt, near Wernstein am Inn, Austria)

Title

At the Edge of the World

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Am Rande der Welt

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1935

Culture

Austrian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/223419

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink on beige wove paper

Dimensions

34 x 28.1 cm (13 3/8 x 11 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: in black ink at l.r.: Kubin
• inscription: l.l., graphite, German, in artist's hand: Am Rande der Welt ["At the Edge of the World"]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Mr. and Mrs. Lyonel Feininger, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1955.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lyonel Feininger

Copyright

© Alfred Kubin Stiftung / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Accession Year

1955

Object Number

BR55.21

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Dr. Ulrich Luckhardt, Lyonel Feininger Alfred Kubin: Eine Kunstlerfreundschaft, exh. cat., Hatje Cantz, Albertina, and Internationale Tage (Ingelheim and Wien, Germany, 2015), p. 305, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

• Lyonel Feininger and Alfred Kubin. A Friendship Between Artists, Internationale Tage, Ingelheim am Rhein, 05/24/2015 - 08/02/2015; Albertina, Vienna, 09/03/2015 - 01/10/2016

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