BR57.39: Night Watchman

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR57.39

People

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

Title

Night Watchman

Other Titles

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

Medium

Watercolor on brown wove paper

Dimensions

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

Inscriptions and Marks

• 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

Recorded Ownership History

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

Acquisition and Rights

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

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. 85, no ill.
• Charles L. Kuhn, German Expressionism and Abstract Art, Busch-Reisinger Museum of Central and Northern European Art (Cambridge, MA, 1967), fig. no. 43, b/w ill.

Exhibition History

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

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