BR35.10: Despair and Rebellion, from the portfolio "The Head"

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

Permissions

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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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