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A brown and black photograph with areas of off-white.

The photograph shows and abstract shape in black against a background of brown, mottled with black and off-white. The shape flows, twists and rises up across the center of the picture plane. Areas of brown show through the twisting shape. The back ground is uneven brown, areas of black are blotted across the corners and along both sides of the photograph. In center vertical lines of jagged off-white are placed over the black shape.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1991.16.8
People
Chargesheimer, German (Cologne, Germany 1924 - 1971 Cologne, Germany)
Title
Voodou, from the book "Lightgraphics, Monoscriptures"
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1961
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/53877

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet: 39.7 x 29.8 cm (15 5/8 x 11 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in black ink at l.l.: Ch 61
  • inscription: on verso at c.l., black ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: "Voodu" [sic] // Chargesheimer
  • inscription: on verso at l.l., black ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: 1.

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
1991.16.8
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1110 Mid-Century Abstraction II (Post-Painterly Abstraction), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/13/2016 - 04/06/2017

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