Stylized figures in and in front of buildings
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

In front of a factory, stylized figures are rendered in bold black shapes on a cream colored background, as symbols, without arms or facial features. At center, a figure wearing a helmet approaches up a walk to a door to the building. At right a large wire cart is shown in profile in front of a window, through which another figure can be seen. At left a smaller figure stands in front of a house-like structure which is in front of the building.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2017.48
People
Gerd Arntz, German (Remscheid, Germany 1900 - 1988 The Hague, Netherlands)
Title
Workers’ Colony
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Arbeiterkolonie
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1924
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/356311

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
21.3 × 30.5 cm (8 3/8 × 12 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: Arntz 24
  • inscription: on recto, in graphite: "Arbeiterkolonie" (8 Sr) Arntz 24

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gerd Arntz, created 1924; The Arntz Estate (1988-2017), sold; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2017.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
Edition of 8

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase in memory of Eda K. Loeb
Copyright
© Gerd Arntz / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
2017
Object Number
2017.48
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1520 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Interwar and Bauhaus), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/15/2018 - 08/05/2019
  • From Posada to Isotype, from Kollwitz to Catlett: Exchanges of Political Print Culture Germany to Mexico 1900-1968, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 03/22/2022 - 08/29/2022

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