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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1992.172
People
Gerhard Kettner, German (Mumsdorf, Germany 1928 - 1993 Dresden, Germany)
Title
Old Woman
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Alte Frau
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1949
Places
Creation Place: Europe, German Democratic Republic
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221288

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal and black chalk with scratchwork on gray wove paper
Dimensions
46 x 34 cm (18 1/8 x 13 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in black crayon at l.l.: GKettner 49
  • inscription: 1 [encircled] Alte Frau

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
1992.172
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), p. 152, cat. no. 102, b/w ill.

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