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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2018.126
People
Carl Grossberg, German (Elberfeld, Germany 1894 - 1940 Compiègne, France)
Title
Study for Industrial Landscape
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Entwurf für Industrielandschaft
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1934
Period
Modern
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/362005

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on two plywood panels
Technique
Painted
Dimensions
61 × 227.6 × 1.3 cm (24 × 89 5/8 × 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: On verso, upper left, in graphite: Grossberg; on verso, upper right, in graphite: Grossberg; on verso, lower left, stamped in black ink: Carl Grossberg Nachlass; on verso, lower right, stamped in black ink: Carl Grossberg Nachlass.
  • inscription: On verso, upper left, in pencil: Grossberg; on verso, upper right, in pencil: Grossberg; on verso, lower left, stamped in black ink: Carl Grossberg Nachlass; on verso, lower right, stamped in black ink: Carl Grossberg Nachlass.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Carl Grossberg, Sommerhausen (1934-1940), by inheritance; to Carl Grossberg Nachlass, Sommerhausen, sold; [through Galerie Hasenclever, Munich, 2018] to Merrill C. Berman, New York, gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2018.

Footnotes:
The provenance of this work appears in "Carl Grossberg: Industry and Architecture" (Munich: Galerie Michael Hasenclever, 2018) n.p. [no. 7].

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Merrill C. and Dalia S. Berman in honor of Lynette Roth
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
2018.126
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This diptych painting is a 1:20 scale model for a wall painting completed in 1934 that originally measured 150 feet wide. It is executed on two panels hinged at the center to fold open.

Publication History

  • Hans M. Schmidt, Carl Grossberg. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Druckgrafik, 1914-1940, exh. cat., Hessisches Landesmuseum (Darmstadt, 1976), p. 39, cat. no. 27, ill. (b/w)
  • Helmut Friedel, Kunst und Technik in den 20er Jahren. Neue Sachlichkeit und Gegenständlicher Konstruktivismus, exh. cat., Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (Munich, 1980), p. 185, cat. no. 67, ill.
  • Hans-Werner Schmidt, Carl Grossberg. Retrospektive zum 100. Geburtstag, exh. cat., ed. Sabine Fehlemann, DuMont Buchverlag (Cologne, 1994), p. 76, cat. no. 38, ill. (b/w)
  • Klaus Türk, ed., Arbeit und Industrie in der bildenden Kunst. Beiträge eines interdisziplinären Symposiums, Franz Steiner Verlag (Stuttgart, 1997), p. 120
  • Melissa Venator, Lynette Roth, and Merrill C. Berman, Carl Grossberg: Works in the Merrill C. Berman Collection, ed. Melissa Venator, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 29, fig. 15 (detail) and p. 61, ill. (color)
  • Andrea Diederichs, Broken Myths: Charles Sheeler's Industrial Landscapes, De Gruyter (Berlin and Boston, 2023), pp. 120-121, fig. 49, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Carl Grossberg. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Druckgrafik, 1914-1940, Hessisches Landesmuseum, 01/01/1976 - 12/31/1976; Von der Heydt-Museum, 06/29/1976 - 08/08/1976; Städtische Museum Leverkusen Schloss Morsbroich, 09/10/1976 - 10/24/1976
  • Kunst und Technik in den 20er Jahren. Neue Sachlichkeit und Gegenständlicher Konstruktivismus, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 07/02/1980 - 08/10/1980
  • Carl Grossberg. Retrospektive zum 100. Geburtstag, Von der Heydt-Museum, 08/28/1994 - 10/09/1994; Kunsthalle Tübingen, 10/15/1994 - 11/27/0994; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, 12/11/1994 - 02/12/1995; Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, 02/20/1995 - 04/17/1995
  • 32Q: Stair 5, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/14/2018 - 08/15/2018
  • The Construction of the World - Art and the Economy, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, 10/11/2018 - 02/03/2019

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