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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2003.62
People
Raimund Girke, German (Heinzendorf 1930 - 2002 Cologne)
Title
Structures
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Strukturen
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1959
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/77189

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Synthetic resin on canvas
Dimensions
120 x 181.4 cm (47 1/4 x 71 7/16 in.)
framed: 134.3 x 189.3 x 4.5 cm (52 7/8 x 74 1/2 x 1 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Karin Girke, by inheritance, 2002, gift to the Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museu, 2003.
Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, gift from Karin Girke, 2003, gift to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2003.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Karin Girke on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Busch-Reisinger Museum
Copyright
© 2003 Estate Raimund Girke
Accession Year
2003
Object Number
2003.62
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Arbeiten auf Leinwand und Papier, exh. cat. Kunstverein Braunschweig, exh. cat. (Braunschwieg, 1979), p. 40 f., ill. b/w (not exhibited)
  • Raimund Girke: Malerei, 1956/1986, exh. cat. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; Quadreat Bottrop - Josef Albers Museum; Frankfurter Kunstverein, exh. cat. (Berlin, Germany, 1986), n.p., ill. b/w.
  • Dietmar Elger, Raimund Girke: Malerei, exh. cat. Sprengel Museum, Hannover; Saarland Museum, Saarbruecken; Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal; and Kunsthalle Nueremberg, exh. cat., Cantz'sche Druckerei (Stuttgart, Germany, 1995), cat. no. 12, col. ill. p. 59
  • 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. 52
  • Madeleine Girke, ed., Raimund Girke: Between White, Estate Raimund Girke and Axel Vervoordt Gallery (Berlin and Wijnegem, 2022), p. 91, pl. 39, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Basic Research: A Selection of Postwar German Painting and Sculpture, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/20/2003 - 04/09/2006

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