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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1992.150
People
Bernhard Heisig, German (Breslau, Silesia (now Wroclaw, Poland) 1925 - 2011 Strodehne an der Havel, Brandenburg)
Title
Faust and Mephisto as Self-Portrait
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Faust und Mephisto als Selbstporträt
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1981
Places
Creation Place: Europe, German Democratic Republic
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221268

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph printed in black ink on off-white wove paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 80 x 67 cm (31 1/2 x 26 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite at l.r.: Heisig
  • inscription: l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: 4/50

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Galerie Brusberg through the German Art Dealers Association
Accession Year
1992
Object Number
1992.150
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. 150-151, cat. no. 97

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