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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2017.125
People
Louise Rösler, German (Berlin, Germany 1907 - 1993 Hamburg, Germany)
Title
Street
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Strasse
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1951
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/357591

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Collage of cut printed paper, metal foil, cellophane, wax paper, opaque watercolor and oil paint on wove paper
Dimensions
15.1 × 32.4 cm (5 15/16 × 12 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., in black ink: 51 Louise Rösler

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Museum Atelierhaus Rösler-Kröhnke, sold; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2017.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Renke B. Thye
Accession Year
2017
Object Number
2017.125
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Cate McQuaid, "'Inventur' looks at German art in the wake of WWII", The Boston Globe (Boston, MA, 2018)
  • Lynette Roth, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 315-316, 318, cat. no. 42.3, ill. (color)
  • Louise Rösler (1907-1993) Bilder und Blätter, Galerie Parterre Berlin (Berlin, 2019), p. 55, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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