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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR65.143
People
Ernst Barlach, German (Wedel, Germany 1870 - 1938 Rostock, Germany)
Title
The First Day, from the portfolio "The Transformations of God"
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Der erste Tag, aus "Die Wandlungen Gottes"
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1920
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/222712

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodcut printed in black in on off-white Japanese paper
Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
block: 25.7 x 35.8 cm (10 1/8 x 14 1/8 in.)
sheet: 32.2 x 47.7 cm (12 11/16 x 18 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite at l.r.: EBarlach
  • inscription: l.r., graphite, handwritten: NG 18
  • inscription: on verso at l.r., graphite, handwritten: Naomi Jackson / Hamilton Canada
  • inscription: on verso at l.r., graphite, handwritten: 1 x 1)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Schult 164

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of a friend of the Busch-Reisinger Museum
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
BR65.143
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • Prints and Drawings by Ernst Barlach, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge
  • From Impressionism to the Bauhaus: German Master Prints from the Harvard Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 05/19/1981 - 06/29/1981
  • Works by Ernst Barlach, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/01/1983 - 08/26/1983

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