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A landscape with factories in the distance viewed from hills

Shadows and flickering sunlight pass over treeless, grassy hills in the foreground. A lone dark figure walks into the scene along a road curving in from the left toward the center. Just beyond the near hills, the engine of a train can be glimpsed at center with smoke trailing behind it. Further still, beyond a barren plain, a row of smokestacks loom above factories. The sky over them is dark with purple, gray and black smoke. We view the scene from a rocky outcrop.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1991.281
People
Albert Birkle, German (Berlin, Germany 1900 - 1986 Salzburg, Austria)
Title
In Upper Silesia
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Aus Oberschlesien
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1928
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221427

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
49.2 x 70.4 cm (19 3/8 x 27 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l. recto: A. Birkle

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Barry Friedman Gallery, New York]?. Merrill C. and Dalia S. Berman, gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1991.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Merrill C. and Dalia S. Berman
Accession Year
1991
Object Number
1991.281
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1520 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Interwar and Bauhaus), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/15/2018 - 08/05/2019

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