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A multicolored fragmented painting portraying people walking on a city street.

A multicolored triptych painting shows three abstract city scenes. Each of the three panels show people crossing a street, people rounding a median, and people standing on a sidewalk. The left side has more concentrated amounts of green color, while the center and right sides have blue, white, and gray.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2016.387
People
Corinne Wasmuht, German (Dortmund, Germany born 1964)
Title
50 U Heinrich-Heine-Str.
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
2009
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Germany, Berlin
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/357300

Location

Location
Level 3, Room 3500, Special Exhibitions Gallery
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on wood
Dimensions
251.5 × 543.6 cm (99 × 214 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Corinne Wasmuht, created 2009, sold; to Ann and Graham Gund (2009-2016), gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2016.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Ann and Graham Gund in honor of Martha Tedeschi
Copyright
© Corinne Wasmuht
Accession Year
2016
Object Number
2016.387
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Stephan Berg and Ludwig Seyfarth, Corinne Wasmuht: Supracity, exh. cat., Haus am Waldsee and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König (Cologne, Germany, 2009), pp. 4-5, ill. (color)
  • Christina Végh, "Blackout in White: The Texture of Transmission. On the Painting of Corinne Wasmuht", Parkett (Zurich, 2012), no. 90, pp. 18-30, p. 26-27, 29, ill. (color)
  • Lynette Roth, ed., Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2024), pp. 154, 155 ill. (color), 156-57 ill. (color), 158, 159 ill. (color), 180.
  • Murray Whyte, Seeing the US in Germany's Mirror, The Boston Globe (Boston, MA, 2024)

Exhibition History

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