- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1992.117
- People
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Carl Buchheister, German (Hanover, Germany 1890 - 1964 Hanover, Germany)
- Title
- Composition AP 5
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1955
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Germany
- Culture
- German
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Casein and PVA paint with putty on pulp board
- Dimensions
- 70 x 50 cm (27 9/16 x 19 11/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: on verso in black ink at l.c.: Carl Buchheister
- inscription: on verso, at l.c., black ink, German, in artist's hand: Carl Buchheister / Buchholz - Weidetor Str. 49 / Komposition AP5/1955
- inscription: on verso, at u.c., black ink, German, in artist's hand: Oben
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- Kemp 1995/4
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Elisabeth Buchheister through the German Art Dealers Association
- Accession Year
- 1992
- Object Number
- 1992.117
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- torn hole at u.c.
- Publication History
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Willi Kemp, ed., Carl Buchheister. Werkverzeichnis der abstrakten Arbeiten, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König (Cologne, Germany, 1998), p. 372, cat. no. 1955/4, col. ill.
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. 24, 102-103, cat. no. 57, ill. (color & b/w)
Liz Sorokin, "The Technical Examination of Two Works on Paper by Carl Buchheister in the Collection of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard Art Museums" (2016), pp 1-100 passim
Liz Sorokin, "The Technical Examination of Two Works on Paper by Carl Buchheister in the Collection of the Busch-Reisinger Museum/Harvard Art Museums" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2016), Unpublished
Lynette Roth and Ilka Voermann, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 327-328, 330, cat. no. 44.3, ill. (color)
- Exhibition History
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Informel 1, Galerie Klang, 02/01/1975 - 02/01/1975
Carl Buchheister. Bilder und Zeichnungen aus den 50er und 60er Jahren, Galerie Wintersberger, 05/03/1984 - 06/13/1984
Carl Buchheister., Galerie Schmela, 03/01/1991 - 04/13/1991
Auf Papier... Deutsche Moderne von Ackermann bis Winter, Galerie Neher, 01/25/1992 - 03/07/1992; Staatliches Museum Schwerin, 03/20/1992 - 05/10/1992
Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/09/2018 - 06/03/2018
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