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

The photograph shows and abstract form that flows and spreads across the center of the image from the top quarter of the picture plane to the bottom edge. The form is off-white with small black and white form filling the interior of the amorphous outline. The background is brown at the edges, tongues of darker brown overlap each other and rise up from the left beneath the center form and to the upper right corner and along the right edge.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1991.16.2
People
Chargesheimer, German (Cologne, Germany 1924 - 1971 Cologne, Germany)
Title
Figurativ, from the book "Lightgraphics, Monoscriptures"
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1961
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/53941

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet: 40.1 x 29.9 cm (15 13/16 x 11 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in black ink at l.r.: Ch 1961
  • inscription: on verso at c.l., graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: "Figurativ"
  • inscription: on verso at l.r., graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: Chargesheimer
  • inscription: on verso at l.l., graphite, 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
1991.16.2
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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