Untitled (As the Fire Fell From the Sky)

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2017.50
People: Erwin Spuler, German (Augsburg, Germany 1906 - 1964 Cagnes-sur-Mer, France)
Title: Untitled (As the Fire Fell From the Sky)
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Ohne Titel (Als das Feuer vom Himmel fiel)
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1945/6
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/357487

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black chalk on white wove paper

Dimensions

29.8 × 41.9 cm (11 3/4 × 16 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.r., in charcoal: Spuler
inscription: on recto, l.r., in charcoal: Spuler

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Luise Faass Hospach, Karlsruhe, sold; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2017.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum Acquisition Fund
Accession Year: 2017
Object Number: 2017.50
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Lynette Roth, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 193-194, 196, cat. no. 15.3, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/09/2018 - 06/03/2018

Verification Level

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2017.50: Untitled (As the Fire Fell From the Sky)