- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- BR57.39
- People
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Hans Jaenisch, German (Eilenstedt, Germany 1907 - 1989)
- Title
- Night Watchman
- Other Titles
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Original Language Title: Nachtwächter
Alternate Title: Composition
Alternate Title: Amrum I - Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1956
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/223575
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Watercolor on brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- 14.9 x 10.6 cm (5 7/8 x 4 3/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: in black ink at l.l.: Jae
- inscription: verso, t., graphite, handwritten: 10-
- inscription: verso, t., graphite, handwritten: 17-7-56.
- inscription: verso, t., graphite, handwritten: Nachtwächter
- Provenance
- The artist, [Kunstverein Hannover], sold; to Charles L. Kuhn, 1957, gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1957
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Charles L. Kuhn
- Accession Year
- 1957
- Object Number
- BR57.39
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- image on recto of blank postcard
printed postcard format on verso
- Publication History
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118. Frühjahrsausstellung. Kunstverein Hannover, exh. cat., Kunstverein Hannover (Hanover, Germany, 1957), cat. no. 85, no ill.
Charles L. Kuhn, German Expressionism and Abstract Art, Busch-Reisinger Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1967), fig. no. 43, b/w ill.
- Exhibition History
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118. Frühjahrsausstellung, Kunstverein Hannover, 03/17/1957 - 04/22/1957
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