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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR57.52
People
Designed by Henry van de Velde, Belgian (Antwerp, Belgium 1863 - 1957 Zurich, Switzerland)
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche, German (Röcken 1844 - 1900 Weimar)
Published by Insel Verlag
Title
"Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nietzsche
Other Titles
Original Language Title: "Also Sprach Zarathustra. Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen"
Classification
Books
Work Type
book
Date
1908
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Germany, Leipzig
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/223590

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Letterpress with parchment binding
Technique
Letterpress
Dimensions
closed: 37.6 × 25.5 × 3 cm (14 13/16 × 10 1/16 × 1 3/16 in.)
pages: 37 × 24.8 cm (14 9/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: last page, black ink: K / W [encircled] [not in Lugt]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[L'Art Ancien S.A., Zurich], sold; to Charles L. Kuhn, Cambridge, 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
BR57.52
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Letterpress text, designs and illustrations printed in red, gold and black inks

Publication History

  • Sebastian Schütze, Friedrich Nietzsche and the Artists of the New Weimar, exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, 2019), cat. no. 11b, repr., p. 62, fig. 16

Exhibition History

  • Dream and Design: Turn-of-the-Century Art in Vienna and Central Europe, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/07/1992 - 05/03/1992
  • “As though my body were naught but ciphers”: Crises of Representation in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 02/12/2005 - 06/12/2005
  • Friedrich Nietzsche and the Artists of the New Weimar, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 04/18/2019 - 08/25/2019

Verification Level

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