2018.34: The Great Wall of China

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2018.34

People

Woty Werner, German (Berlin, Germany 1903 - 1971 Nuremberg, Germany)

Title

The Great Wall of China

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Chinesische Mauer

Classification

Textile Arts

Work Type

textile

Date

1946

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/361104

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silk

Technique

Woven

Dimensions

44 × 57.8 cm (17 5/16 × 22 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.r., in black ink: Woty 46
• label: Removed from backing board: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen München / Inv.-Nr. T.W. 205 / Woty Werner / Chinesische / Mauer (1946)
• label: Removed from backing board: Woty Werner, 1903-1971 / "Chinesische Mauer" 1946 / Seidenweberei / ca. 44 x ca. 57 cm / Inventar-Nr. 297
• label: Removed from backing board: Blank + Haenle / Rahmen + Grafik / Ismaninger Strasse 58-60 / 81675 Munchen / 089 / 4 70 80 84

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Woty Werner, created 1946; Estate of the artist, gift; to the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich. [Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich], sold; to Ernfried von Fuchs, Munich, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2018.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Ernfried Fuchs

Accession Year

2018

Object Number

2018.34

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

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Publication History

• Woty Werner: Bildteppiche, exh. cat., Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, München (Munich, Germany, 1985), p. 12, cat. no. 14, ill. (b/w)

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