Harvard Art Museums > BR65.54: Figuration in Front of Blue Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Figuration in Front of Blue (Fritz Winter) , BR65.54,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 23, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/222629. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number BR65.54 People Fritz Winter, German (Altenbögge near Unna 1905 - 1976 Herrsching am Ammersee) Title Figuration in Front of Blue Other Titles Original Language Title: Figuration vor Blau Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date 1953 Culture German Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/222629 Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 136.5 x 146.5 cm (53 3/4 x 57 11/16 in.) framed: 140.8 x 151.1 x 4.4 cm (55 7/16 x 59 1/2 x 1 3/4 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: on recto at l.l.: F Winter 53 inscription: verso, l.l., upside down, black crayon, German, signed, in artist's hand: Figuration vor Blau / F Winter 53 Provenance Recorded Ownership History The artist, sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1955, transfer; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1965 State, Edition, Standard Reference Number Standard Reference Number Lohberg 1408 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Association Fund Copyright © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Accession Year 1965 Object Number BR65.54 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Charles L. Kuhn, German Expressionism and Abstract Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1957), no p., cat. no. 100. b/w ill. Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), p. 18, repr. Gabriele Lohberg, Fritz Winter, Leben und Werk: mit Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und einem Anhang der sonstigen Techniken, Bruckmann Verlag (Munich, Germany, 1986), cat. no. 1408, b/w ill. Shuichi Kato, Geheimnis Japan, Orbis Verlag (Munich, Germany, 2001), p. 25, color repr. 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. 70 Lynette Roth, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 362-364, cat. no. 51.1, ill. (color) Exhibition History Contemporary Art: Loans and Recent Acquisitions, Fogg Art Museum, 04/12/1955 - 05/23/1955 PICTURE OF THE MONTH, University of Florida, 05/01/1960 - 06/01/1960 19th- and 20th-Century Paintings and Sculpture from the Museum's Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 06/11/1980 - 08/31/1980 German Painting 1760-1960: A New Installation, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 12/20/1983 - 02/19/1984 32Q: 1200 Mid-Century Abstraction I (Painterly Abstraction), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/30/2015 - 04/06/2016 Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/09/2018 - 06/03/2018 Subjects and Contexts The Bauhaus Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
