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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR61.44
People
Carl Buchheister, German (Hanover, Germany 1890 - 1964 Hanover, Germany)
Title
Composition with Dot Theme
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Komposition mit Punktthema
Former Title: Composition
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1952
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/222907

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Alkyd and modified oil paint on machine-made laid paper
Dimensions
35.6 x 30.5 cm (14 x 12 in.)
mat: 54.2925 x 48.26 cm (21 3/8 x 19 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on verso, in graphite: Carl Buchheister
  • inscription: on verso, in graphite: für Axel Dorner// zum 60. Geburtstag 19. Jan. 1953
  • inscription: on verso, in graphite: Carl Buchheister Hannover// Komposition mit Punktthema 1952
  • inscription: on verso, in graphite: oben

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Kemp 1952/31

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Lydia Dorner in memory of Dr. Alexander Dorner
Accession Year
1961
Object Number
BR61.44
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Willi Kemp, ed., Carl Buchheister. Werkverzeichnis der abstrakten Arbeiten, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König (Cologne, Germany, 1998), p. 258, cat. no. 31
  • Liz Sorokin, "The Technical Examination of Two Works on Paper by Carl Buchheister in the Collection of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard Art Museums" (2016), pp 1-100 passim
  • Lynette Roth, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 326-328, cat. no. 44.1, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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