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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2017.55
People
Werner Heldt, German (Berlin, Germany 1904 - 1954 Sant'Angelo, Naples, Italy)
Title
Still Life at the Window
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Stilleben am Fenster
Former Title: Still life on the Balcony (Still Life at the Window with a Medallion)
Former Title: Stilleben auf dem Balkon (Stilleben am Fenster mit Medaillon)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1950
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/357587

Location

Location
Level 1, Room 1330, Modern and Contemporary Art, New Images
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
58 × 70 cm (22 13/16 × 27 9/16 in.)
framed: 78.3 × 90.5 × 5.5 cm (30 13/16 × 35 5/8 × 2 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l., in black paint: WH 50; On verso in black paint: WERNER HELDT
  • inscription: on verso, in blue paint: WERNER HELDT / "Stilleben am Fenster" / 1950

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private collection, Berlin (1957). Nachlass Werner Heldt (1968, 1976). [Galerie Brusberg, Berlin (1999). Private collection (2003). [Galerie Haas AG, Zurich], sold; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2017.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase in memory of Eda K. Loeb
Accession Year
2017
Object Number
2017.55
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Werner Heldt: Gemalde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, exh. cat., Haus am Waldsee (Berlin, 1954), No. 34
  • Werner Heldt, exh. cat., Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (Hannover and Berlin, 1957), No. 74
  • Werner Heldt: Malerei und Zeichnungen, exh. cat., Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf, 1968), No. 74
  • Werner Heldt: Oeuvre-Katalog der Bilder von Heldt 1920-1954, Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover (1968), Kat. 6
  • Wieland Schmied and Eberhard Seel, Werner Heldt Mit einem Werkkatalog von Eberhard Seel, DuMont (Cologne, 1976), No. 648
  • Werner Heldt, exh. cat., Galerie Michael Haas (Berlin, 2017), Cover, pp. 50-51, ill. (color)
  • Lynette Roth, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 23, 53-54, 171-172, fig. 18, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Werner Heldt: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Haus am Waldsee, 11/17/1954 - 12/15/1954
  • Werner Heldt, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, 05/07/1957 - 06/10/1957
  • Werner Heldt (Retrospektive), Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, 03/08/1968 - 04/07/1968
  • Werner Heldt: Malerei und Zeichnungen, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 09/27/1968 - 11/10/1968
  • Werner Heldt, Hans Uhlmann: Berliner Dialoge, Galerie Brusberg, 01/25/2003 - 03/29/2003
  • 32Q: 1330 Mid-Century Figurative, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/10/2023 - 04/14/2025
  • Werner Heldt, Galerie Michael Haas, 01/27/2017 - 03/18/2017
  • Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/09/2018 - 06/03/2018

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