Harvard Art Museums > BR72.4: Study for the "Beethoven Monument" Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Study for the "Beethoven Monument" (Max Klinger) , BR72.4,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 19, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/222745. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number BR72.4 People Max Klinger, German (Leipzig, Germany 1857 - 1920 Grossjena, near Naumburg, Germany) Title Study for the "Beethoven Monument" Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1897 Culture German Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/222745 Physical Descriptions Medium Black chalk and pink and white opaque watercolor on brown wove paper Dimensions irregular: 65.1 x 50.1 cm (25 5/8 x 19 3/4 in.) frame: 84.1 × 68.9 cm (33 1/8 × 27 1/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: lower right, black chalk: MK inscription: verso, lower left, graphite(?): Hans (or Klaus) Meyer Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Shepherd Gallery, New York], sold; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1972 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase in honor of David Farmer Accession Year 1972 Object Number BR72.4 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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. 205 Sebastian Schütze, Friedrich Nietzsche and the Artists of the New Weimar, exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, 2019), cat. no. 21, repr., p. 28 Exhibition History 19th-Century German Drawings and Watercolors, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 07/01/1981 - 08/31/1981 From the Realists to the Expressionists: Works on Paper by Central European Artists from 1870 to 1918, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/14/1983 - 04/29/1983 19th-Century Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/01/1983 - 10/09/1983 Before Expressionism: Art in Germany circa 1903, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/24/2003 - 02/15/2004 Flowers of Evil: Symbolist Drawings, 1870–1910, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2016 - 08/14/2016 Friedrich Nietzsche and the Artists of the New Weimar, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 04/18/2019 - 08/25/2019 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
