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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1992.163
People
Horst Janssen, German (Hamburg, Germany 1929 - 1995 Hamburg, Germany)
Title
Toebirdhead
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Zehvogelkopf
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1958 (printed 1989)
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221223

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and aquatint printed in black ink on off-white wove paper
Technique
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
plate: 40 x 28.9 cm (15 3/4 x 11 3/8 in.)
sheet: 60 x 44.8 cm (23 5/8 x 17 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: initialled in graphite at l.r.: HJ 58
  • inscription: in plate at l.r., in artist's hand: 10.6.58
  • inscription: l.r., graphite, English, in artist's hand: Harvard University

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Brockstedt R49

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Galerie Brockstedt through the German Art Dealers Association
Accession Year
1992
Object Number
1992.163
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. 56-57, cat. no. 9

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