Portrait of a Man (The Sculptor Heinrich Drake)

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1992.173
People: Gerhard Kettner, German (Mumsdorf, Germany 1928 - 1993 Dresden, Germany)
Title: Portrait of a Man (The Sculptor Heinrich Drake)
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Männerporträt (Der Bildhauer Heinrich Drake)
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1988
Places: Creation Place: Europe, German Democratic Republic
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/221278

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on gray laid paper

Dimensions

sight: 51.5 x 33.8 cm (20 1/4 x 13 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: in graphite at u.l.: Gerhard Kettner 88

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of the Artist through the German Art Dealers Association
Accession Year: 1992
Object Number: 1992.173
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
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Descriptions

Description: object is drum mounted

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. 152-153, cat. no. 103, ill. (b/w)

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