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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.485
People
Isa Genzken, German (Bad Oldesloe, Germany born 1948)
Title
Zittau
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1990
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/372945

Location

Location
Level 3, Room 3500, Special Exhibitions Gallery
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Concrete, steel, and radio antenna
Dimensions
100 × 17 × 5 cm (39 3/8 × 6 11/16 × 1 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: On base, in black ink: Isa Genzken
  • inscription: On base, in black ink: Zittau 1990 / Isa Genzken

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private Collector, Germany, sold; to Edmund Schmidt and Werner Krüger and the German Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2021.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Edmund Schmidt and Werner Krüger and the German Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum
Copyright
© Isa Genzken / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
2021
Object Number
2021.485
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Lynette Roth, ed., Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2024), pp. 20, ill. fig. 12 (color), 109, ill. (color), 110, ill. (color), 177.

Exhibition History

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