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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR57.39
People
Hans Jaenisch, German (Eilenstedt, Germany 1907 - 1989)
Title
Night Watchman
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Nachtwächter
Alternate Title: Composition
Alternate Title: Amrum I
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1956
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/223575

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor on brown wove paper
Dimensions
14.9 x 10.6 cm (5 7/8 x 4 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in black ink at l.l.: Jae
  • inscription: verso, t., graphite, handwritten: 10-
  • inscription: verso, t., graphite, handwritten: 17-7-56.
  • inscription: verso, t., graphite, handwritten: Nachtwächter

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist, [Kunstverein Hannover], sold; to Charles L. Kuhn, 1957, gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1957

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Charles L. Kuhn
Accession Year
1957
Object Number
BR57.39
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Descriptions

Description
image on recto of blank postcard
printed postcard format on verso

Publication History

  • 118. Frühjahrsausstellung. Kunstverein Hannover, exh. cat., Kunstverein Hannover (Hanover, Germany, 1957), cat. no. 85, no ill.
  • Charles L. Kuhn, German Expressionism and Abstract Art, Busch-Reisinger Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1967), fig. no. 43, b/w ill.

Exhibition History

  • 118. Frühjahrsausstellung, Kunstverein Hannover, 03/17/1957 - 04/22/1957

Verification Level

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