Snake | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: BR63.143
People: Gerhard Marcks, German (Berlin, Germany 1889 - 1981 Burgbrohl, Germany)
Title: Snake
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Schlange
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1949-1950
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/165015

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Woodcut printed in black ink on off-white laid paper
Technique: Woodcut
Dimensions: image: 2 x 8.7 cm (13/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
sheet: 27.4 x 19.3 cm (10 13/16 x 7 5/8 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: Lammek H484.7

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Julia Feininger
Copyright: © Gerhard-Marcks-Stiftung, Bremen, Germany / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year: 1963
Object Number: BR63.143
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Woodcut from Marck's illustrations for Aesop's Fables used as letterhead. Letter from Gerhard Marcks to Lyonel Feininger dated 12 June 1950. Text of letter in black ink, signed on verso at l.r.: Gerhard Marcks. Printed upside down from what is illustrated in the Hauswedell cat. rais.

Subjects and Contexts

The Bauhaus

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BR63.143: Snake