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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2022.15
People
Jeanne Mammen, German (Berlin, Germany 1890 - 1976 Berlin, Germany)
Title
Transparent Profile
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1945-1946
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/374733

Location

Location
Level 1, Room 1110, Modern and Contemporary Art, Mid–century Abstraction II
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil and wire on cardboard.
Dimensions
27.9 × 22.5 cm (11 × 8 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: On backing board: GRIESBACH / Auktion Nr. 337 Los-Nr. 404 / Mammen, Jeanne / "Transparentes Profil" / Um 1945/46 4060863 / Fasanenstrasse 25 D - 10719 Berlin / Tel: 030 - 885 915-0 Fax: 030 - 882 41 45"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Artist created, c. 1945, upon her death; to the Jeanne Mammen Gesellschaft (by 1979); Eberhard Roters, Berlin, by descent; to his heirs, sold; through [Villa Grisebach, Berlin, December 3, 2021, Lot 404] sold; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2021.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Merkert G125

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase in memory of Eda K. Loeb
Copyright
© Mammen-Gesellschaft e. V. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany
Accession Year
2022
Object Number
2022.15
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jeanne Mammen, Hans Thiemann, exh. cat., Jeanne-Mammen-Stiftung (Berlin, 1979), p. 79, cat. no. 160
  • Jörn Merkert, ed., Jeanne Mammen 1890-1976. Monographie und Werverzeichnis, Wienand Verlag (Cologne, Germany, 1997), p. 213, cat. no. G125, ill. (b/w)
  • Eva Scharrer, Painting Forever! Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Painting Forever! To Paint Is To Love Again, Jeanne Mammen - Antje Majewski, Katrin Plavčak, Giovanna Sarti, 18. Sept. bis 10. Nov. 2013, exh. cat., Druck Verlag Kettler (Berlin, 2013), pp. 24, 93

Exhibition History

  • Jeanne Mammen, Hans Thiemann, Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin, 05/07/1979 - 06/10/1979
  • Painting Forever! To Paint Is to Love Again, Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, 09/18/2013 - 11/10/2013
  • 32Q: 1110 Mid-Century Abstraction II (Post-Painterly Abstraction), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/10/2023 - 01/01/2050

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