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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1994.132
People
Ben Willikens, German (Leipzig, Germany born 1939)
Title
Space from Ashes: Jena III
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 'Raum aus Asche' Jena III
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1993
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/219383

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Acrylic paint and graphite on particle board
Dimensions
76.3 x 103.2 cm (30 1/16 x 40 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite at l.r.: Willikens
  • inscription: l.c., graphite, in artist's hand: Jena / III
  • inscription: l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: 1993
  • inscription: u.c., graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: 300
  • inscription: c.r., graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: 300
  • inscription: on verso at u.c., graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: Ben Willikens
  • inscription: on verso at u.c., graphite and ink, handwritten and stamped, in artist's hand: RAUM AUS ASCHE III // Jena ["Raum aus Asche" is stamped in black ink, the rest is handwritteni n graphite]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of the Galerie Carol Johnssen through the German Art Dealers Association
Copyright
© Ben Willikens / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1994
Object Number
1994.132
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Erika Gemar Költzsch, German Marks: Postwar Drawings and Prints Donated to the Busch-Reisinger Museum through the German Art Dealers Association, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), pp. 20, 88-89, cat. no. 44, ill. (color & b/w)
  • 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. 29

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