BR51.271: In Front of Red
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- BR51.271
- People
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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
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- 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
- Contemporary Art: Loans and Recent Acquisitions, Fogg Art Museum, 04/12/1955 - 05/23/1955
- Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/09/2018 - 06/03/2018
Subjects and Contexts
- The Bauhaus
Verification Level
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