2016.387: 50 U Heinrich-Heine-Str.
PaintingsA 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
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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
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
- Permissions
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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
- Corinne Wasmuht: Supracity, Haus am Waldsee, 12/11/2009 - 02/21/2010; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, 03/11/2010 - 05/16/2010
- 32Q: 1120 Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/15/2018 - 02/25/2019
- Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/13/2024 - 01/05/2025
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