- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- BR61.44
- People
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Carl Buchheister, German (Hanover, Germany 1890 - 1964 Hanover, Germany)
- Title
- Composition with Dot Theme
- Other Titles
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Original Language Title: Komposition mit Punktthema
Former Title: Composition - Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1952
- Culture
- German
- Location
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Level 3, Room 3500, Special Exhibitions Gallery
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- Medium
- Alkyd and modified oil paint on machine-made laid paper
- Dimensions
- 35.6 x 30.5 cm (14 x 12 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- 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
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- Standard Reference Number
- Kemp 1952/31
- Acquisition and Rights
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- 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
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Willi Kemp, ed., Carl Buchheister. Werkverzeichnis der abstrakten Arbeiten, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König (Cologne, Germany, 1998), p. 258, cat. no. 31
- Exhibition History
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Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/09/2018 - 06/03/2018
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