BR52.9: The Acrobats, in "Münchner Blätter für Dichtung und Graphik," vol. I, no. 1, p. 10

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR52.9

People

Paul Klee, Swiss (Münchenbuchsee near Bern, Switzerland 1879 - 1940 Muralto-Locarno, Switzerland)

Title

The Acrobats, in "Münchner Blätter für Dichtung und Graphik," vol. I, no. 1, p. 10

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Akrobaten

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1919

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/225238

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Lithograph on off-white wove paper

Technique

Lithograph

Dimensions

sheet: 28.3 x 22.5 cm (11 1/8 x 8 7/8 in.)
image: 19 x 7.5 cm (7 1/2 x 2 15/16 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Kornfeld 71 B

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Museum purchase

Copyright

© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Accession Year

1952

Object Number

BR52.9

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• Klee and Kandinsky: Works from the Harvard Collection and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1980 - 01/17/1981
• Touchstone: 200 Years of Artists' Lithographs, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/15/1998 - 11/01/1998; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 07/17/1999 - 09/26/1999; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, 09/30/1999 - 12/10/2000; William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Museum, Chapel Hill, 02/04/2001 - 05/13/2001

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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