- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2017.122
- People
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Louise Rösler, German (Berlin, Germany 1907 - 1993 Hamburg, Germany)
- Title
- Frankfurt in Rubble
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Frankfurt in Trümmern
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1947-1948
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/357588
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Watercolor, colored pencil, graphite, and pastel on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 20 × 29.8 cm (7 7/8 × 11 3/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.r., in graphite: Louise Rösler 47/48
- Provenance
- Museum Atelierhaus Rösler-Kröhnke, sold; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2017.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Renke B. Thye
- Accession Year
- 2017
- Object Number
- 2017.122
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Dr. Katrin Arrieta and Kornelia von Berswordt-Wallrabe, Louise Rösler zum 100. Geburtstag, Museum Atelierhaus Rösler-Kröhnke (Kühlungsborn, Germany, 2007), p. 37, ill. (color)
Claire Messud, "German Art, Out of the Rubble", New York Review of Books (New York, NY, 2018)
Lynette Roth, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp127-129, cat. no. 3.2, ill. (color)
- Exhibition History
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Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/09/2018 - 06/03/2018
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