BR52.11: Death for the Idea
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- BR52.11
- People
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Paul Klee, Swiss (Münchenbuchsee near Bern, Switzerland 1879 - 1940 Muralto-Locarno, Switzerland)
- Title
- Death for the Idea
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1915
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/225209
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black ink on cream wove paper
- Technique
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- sheet: 23.9 x 15.8 cm (9 7/16 x 6 1/4 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Museum purchase
- Copyright
- © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Accession Year
- 1952
- Object Number
- BR52.11
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Zentrum Paul Klee, ed., Paul Klee: Life and Work, Hatje Cantz Verlag (Ostfildern, Germany, 2012), p. 107, ill. (color)
- John Sallis, ed., Paul Klee: Philosophical Vision: From Nature to Art, exh. cat., McMullen Museum of Art (Chestnut Hill, MA, 2012), pp. 146, 163, 257, ill.
Exhibition History
- Klee and Kandinsky: Works from the Harvard Collection and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1980 - 01/17/1981
- Paul Klee, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/17/1993 - 06/13/1993
- Paul Klee: Philosophical Vision from Nature to Art, McMullen Museum of Art, Chestnut Hill, 09/01/2012 - 12/09/2012
Subjects and Contexts
- The Bauhaus
Verification Level
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