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An abstract photograph in black, white and gray.

The photograph shows a black center form overlaid with bright white strokes that crisscross and rise diagonally across the black form. The black form begins at the bottom with thin lines that rise up and thicken to a solid V-shape before separating into three line of different thickness, the thickest line on the right crosses to the left before rising slightly and curving back on itself. A line in black rises from the bottom and branches to the left, separates into three thin lines that rise to the top edge. The back ground is gray with a mottled white band that surrounds the black center form from the bottom right edge, up the left side and across the top.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1991.16.1
People
Chargesheimer, German (Cologne, Germany 1924 - 1971 Cologne, Germany)
Title
Skriptur, from the book "Lightgraphics, Monoscriptures"
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1961
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/53875

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet: 38.1 x 28.1 cm (15 x 11 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in black ink at l.r.: Ch 1961
  • inscription: on verso at l.c., blue ballpoint ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: Chargesheimer
  • inscription: on verso at l.l., blue ballpoint ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: 1.
  • inscription: on verso at c.l., blue ballpoint ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: Skriptur

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of The Cultural Council in the Federation of German Industry
Accession Year
1991
Object Number
1991.16.1
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 63

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1110 Mid-Century Abstraction II (Post-Painterly Abstraction), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/07/2015 - 04/06/2016

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