Harvard Art Museums > BR55.20: The Organ Grinder Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"The Organ Grinder (Alfred Kubin) , BR55.20,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 05, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/223396. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number BR55.20 People Alfred Kubin, Austrian (Leitmeritz, Bohemia, Austria 1877 - 1959 Zwickledt, near Wernstein am Inn, Austria) Title The Organ Grinder Other Titles Original Language Title: Der Orgelmann Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date c. 1908-1910 Culture Austrian Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/223396 Physical Descriptions Medium Black ink with traces of graphite on cream wove paper Dimensions 39 x 33 cm (15 3/8 x 13 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: in graphite at l.r. (twice): Kubin inscription: l.l., graphite, German, in artist's hand: Der Orgelmann ["The Organ Grinder"] Provenance Recorded Ownership History Mr. and Mrs. Lyonel Feininger, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1955. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lyonel Feininger Copyright © Alfred Kubin Stiftung / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Accession Year 1955 Object Number BR55.20 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 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. 157 Dr. Ulrich Luckhardt, Lyonel Feininger Alfred Kubin: Eine Kunstlerfreundschaft, exh. cat., Hatje Cantz, Albertina, and Internationale Tage (Ingelheim and Wien, Germany, 2015), p. 305, ill. (color) Exhibition History Works from the 20th Century Collection of the Busch-Reisinger, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 09/23/1980 - 10/24/1980 20th-Century Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/07/1981 - 11/11/1981 Deutsche Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus dem Busch-Reisinger Museum, Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, 10/23/1982 - 01/16/1983; Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin 30, 02/10/1983 - 04/17/1983; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 05/08/1983 - 06/26/1983 Franz Marc and the Blue Rider, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 04/08/2001 - 07/15/2001 Lyonel Feininger and Alfred Kubin. A Friendship Between Artists, Internationale Tage, Ingelheim am Rhein, 05/24/2015 - 08/02/2015; Albertina, Vienna, 09/03/2015 - 01/10/2016 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
