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An abstract photograph in black, off-white, and gray.

The photograph shows a narrow off-white line which rises up from the bottom edge, it stops one-quarter of the way to the top edge. The line is intersected by an off-white line, two lines radiate from it on the right side. A black line rises up from the bottom edge and runs parallel to the off-white line and is half as long. Areas of black surround the lines, the black areas are amorphous, vary in density and have gray highlights. The background is off-white covered with a thin black wash.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1991.16.3
People
Chargesheimer, German (Cologne, Germany 1924 - 1971 Cologne, Germany)
Title
Kosmogen, from the book "Lightgraphics, Monoscriptures"
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1961
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/53878

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet: 41.9 x 29.5 cm (16 1/2 x 11 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in black ink at l.r.: Chargesheimer 61
  • inscription: on verso at l.c., blue ballpoint ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: Kosmogen
  • inscription: on verso at l.l., blue ballpoint ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: 1.
  • inscription: on verso at l.r., blue ballpoint ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: Chargesheimer

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
1991.16.3
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, 10/07/2015 - 04/06/2016

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