BR52.17: Prometheus Bound II

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR52.17

People

Gerhard Marcks, German (Berlin, Germany 1889 - 1981 Burgbrohl, Germany)

Title

Prometheus Bound II

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Gefesselter Prometheus II

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture

Date

1948

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/225304

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

78.1 x 51.5 x 46 cm (30 3/4 x 20 1/4 x 18 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: on base, behind proper right heel, in artist's hand: artist's monogram

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

Rudloff 522

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Museum Purchase, by exchange

Copyright

© Gerhard-Marcks-Stiftung, Bremen, Germany / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Accession Year

1952

Object Number

BR52.17

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Gerhard Marcks, exh. cat., Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, 1953), p. 16 + 22, cat. no. 37, b/w ill.
• Charles L. Kuhn, German Expressionism and Abstract Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1957), cat. no. 120, b/w ill.
• Brandt Aymar, The Young Male Figure, Crown Publishers Inc. (New York, NY, 1970), p. 217, b/w ill.
• Anneliese Harding, German Sculpture in New England Museums, Goethe Institute (Boston, MA, 1972), p. 20, repr. p. 78 as fig. 143
• Günter Busch, Gerhard Marcks. Das plastische Werk, Propyläen Verlag (Berlin, Germany, 1977), p. 348, no. 522, b/w ill.
• Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), p. 66, repr. pp. 66-67
• Peter Nisbet and Emilie Norris, Busch-Reisinger Museum: History and Holdings, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1991), p. 88, ill.
• Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 78
• Lynette Roth, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 258-260, cat. no. 30.1, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

• Works from the 20th Century Collection of the Busch-Reisinger, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 06/15/1980 - 09/01/1980; Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 09/23/1980 - 10/24/1980
• German Sculpture, 1500 - 1960: A New Installation, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/05/1984 - 12/31/1984
• German Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 01/21/1986 - 03/10/1986
• Making Myth Modern: Primordial Themes in German 20th-Century Sculpture, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 07/14/2007 - 12/30/2007
• 32Q: 1510 German Expressionist Sculpture, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/27/2015 - 01/12/2016
• Private Practice, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/27/2015 - 01/12/2016
• Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/09/2018 - 06/03/2018

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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