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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR35.10
People
Ernst Barlach, German (Wedel, Germany 1870 - 1938 Rostock, Germany)
Title
Despair and Rebellion, from the portfolio "The Head"
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Head
Original Language Title: Verzweiflung und Empörung, aus "Der Kopf"
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1919
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/225914

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodcut printed in black ink on off-white laid paper
Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
block: 15 x 14.4 cm (5 7/8 x 5 11/16 in.)
sheet: 26.7 x 20.3 cm (10 1/2 x 8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite at l.r.: EBarlach
  • stamp: on verso at l.r., blue ink, English: PRINTED IN GERMANY
  • inscription: On verso, l.m.: 9673

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Schult 109

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Museum Purchase
Accession Year
1935
Object Number
BR35.10
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 158

Exhibition History

  • Prints and Drawings by Ernst Barlach, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge

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