Harvard Art Museums > M9983: Destruction and Hope Prints Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Destruction and Hope (Paul Klee) , M9983,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 18, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/250981. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number M9983 People Paul Klee, Swiss (Münchenbuchsee near Bern, Switzerland 1879 - 1940 Muralto-Locarno, Switzerland) Title Destruction and Hope Other Titles Original Language Title: Zerstörung und Hoffnung Classification Prints Work Type print Date 1916 Culture German Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/250981 Physical Descriptions Medium Lithograph with watercolor and traces of graphite on white laid paper Technique Lithograph Dimensions sheet: 59 x 46 cm (23 1/4 x 18 1/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: in graphite at l.c.: Kl Provenance Recorded Ownership History Schlesisches Museum der bildenden Künste, Breslau; removed from the collection by the National Socialist (Nazi) authorities, EK8253;[Buchholz Gallery, New York, New York], sold; Fogg Art Museum, November 25, 1940. State, Edition, Standard Reference Number Edition 60 Standard Reference Number Kornfeld 68 Bb Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles Bain Hoyt and John S. Thacher Copyright © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Accession Year 1940 Object Number M9983 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 Zentrum Paul Klee, ed., Paul Klee: Life and Work, Hatje Cantz Verlag (Ostfildern, Germany, 2012), p. 109, ill. (color) Exhibition History Klee and Kandinsky: Works from the Harvard Collection and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1980 - 01/17/1981 From Impressionism to the Bauhaus: German Master Prints from the Harvard Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 05/19/1981 - 06/29/1981 Cubism: Explorations and Adaptations, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 09/18/1982 - 10/26/1982 From the Realists to the Expressionists: Works on Paper by Central European Artists from 1870 to 1918, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/14/1983 - 04/29/1983 Paul Klee, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/17/1993 - 06/13/1993 Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000 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
