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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR51.271
People
Fritz Winter, German (Altenbögge near Unna 1905 - 1976 Herrsching am Ammersee)
Title
In Front of Red
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Vor Rot
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1951
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/225261

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black paint and opaque and transparent watercolor on off-white thick paper
Dimensions
sight: 50 x 70 cm (19 11/16 x 27 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., black ink: FWinter 51
  • inscription: on verso, l. r., in graphite: VOR ROT
  • inscription: on verso, l. r., in graphite: FWinter 51

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Galerie Günther Francke, Munich], sold; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1951

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
1951
Object Number
BR51.271
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Charles L. Kuhn, German Expressionism and Abstract Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1957), cat. no. 99, b/w ill.
  • Peter Nisbet and Emilie Norris, Busch-Reisinger Museum: History and Holdings, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1991), p. 90, ill.
  • Lynette Roth, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 82-85, fig. 4, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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