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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2022.371
People
Ernst Thoms, German (Nienburg, Germany 1896 - 1983 Wietzen, Germany)
Title
Child from the Old Town
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Altstadtkind
Alternate Title: Portrait of a Girl
Alternate Title: Mädchenportrait
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1925
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/377998

Location

Location
Level 1, Room 1500, Modern and Contemporary Art, Art in Germany Between the Wars
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
50.5 × 40.5 cm (19 7/8 × 15 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., in brown paint: Thoms

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Artist's collection (1925-1970s). Westdeutsche Kunstmesse Köln-Düsseldorf*. Private Collection, Hanover, 2018, sold; to Galerie Derda, Berlin, sold; to Private Collection, Berlin. [Lehr Kunstauktionen Berlin (April 30, 2022), Lot 403]; The Merrill C. Berman Collection, New York, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2022.

*per label fragment on the stretcher

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Merrill C. Berman and Dalia S. Berman
Accession Year
2022
Object Number
2022.371
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Georg Grabenhorst, Ernst Thoms, Musterschmidt Verlag (Gottingen, Berlin, Frankfurt, Zurich, 1965), p. 14
  • Heinrich-Detlev Gadesmann, "Beschreibender Werkkatalog der Ölbilder von Ernst Thoms" (1981), Universität Hamburg, pp. 75, cat. no. 30, ill. (b/w)
  • Karin Stempel, Ernst Thoms: ein Hannoveraner Maler der Neuen Sachlichkeit: Ausstellung im Augusteum vom 28. April bis 6. Juni 1982, exh. cat., Verlag Isensee and Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg (Oldenburg, Germany, 1982), pp. 46-47, ill. (b/w)

Exhibition History

  • Ernst Thoms ein Hannoveraner Maler der Neuen Sachlichkeit, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, 04/28/1982 - 06/06/1982
  • 32Q: 1500 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Expressionism-Interwar), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/28/2024 - 01/01/2050
  • 32Q: 1520 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Interwar and Bauhaus), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 03/28/2024; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/13/2023 - 10/10/2023; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/10/2023 - 03/28/2024

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