Holzamer: "Spiele" | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: BR57.49
People: Josef Olbrich, Austrian (1867 - 1908)
Author: Wilhelm Holzamer (Nieder-Olm 1870 - 1907 Berlin)
Title: Holzamer: "Spiele"
Classification: Books
Work Type: book
Date: 1901
Places: Creation Place: Europe
Culture: Austrian
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/223576

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red paper cover with gold ink design and cord, 9 illustrations printed in blue ink on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

20.7 x 14.6 cm (8 1/8 x 5 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: Printed on cover in gold ink: OLBRICH
stamp: Center of frontispiece: very faint red ink stamp
inscription: Printed on frontispiece: Wilhelm Holzamer/ Spiele/ mit Zeichnungen/ von Olbrich/ Verlegt bei Eugen Diederichs, Leipzig 1901

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Charles Kuhn [purchased through L'Art Ancien S.A., Zurich], gift; to the 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: BR57.49
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

Dream and Design: Turn-of-the-Century Art in Vienna and Central Europe, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/07/1992 - 05/03/1992

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