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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1992.92
People
Gerhard Altenbourg, German (Rödlichen-Schnepfenthal, Germany 1926 - 1989 Meissen, Germany)
Title
Autumn Scattering
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Herbstliches Verwehn
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1962
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221249

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, black ink, and black crayon on cream wove paper
Dimensions
62.8 x 86 cm (24 3/4 x 33 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on verso in gray ink at l.c.: Gerhard Altenbourg
  • inscription: on verso, at l.c., gray ink, German, in artist's hand: Herbstliches Verwehn / Gerhard Altenbourg 1962 Nov. / Nr. 352
  • inscription: on verso, at l.l., graphite, German, in artist's hand: für A.
  • inscription: on verso, at l.r., graphite, in artist's hand: No 1

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mrs. Anneliese Ströch through the German Art Dealers Association
Accession Year
1992
Object Number
1992.92
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Schoellershammer-Karton

Publication History

  • Dieter Brusberg, ed., Gerhard Altenbourg: Werk-Verzeichnis, 1947-1969 (Hannover, 1969), no. 62/18
  • 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. 37, 164-165, cat. no. 121, ill. (b/w & color)
  • 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. 58

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