Harvard Art Museums > BR52.17: Prometheus Bound II Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Prometheus Bound II (Gerhard Marcks) , BR52.17,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 03, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/225304. This object does not yet have a description. 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 The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
