Refusal | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: BR48.111
People: Gerhard Marcks, German (Berlin, Germany 1889 - 1981 Burgbrohl, Germany)
Title: Refusal
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Absage; Urteil das Paris (Absage)
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1925
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/226053

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Woodcut printed in black ink on off-white laid paper

Technique

Woodcut

Dimensions

block: 26.3 x 21.8 cm (10 3/8 x 8 9/16 in.)
sheet: 41 x 31 cm (16 1/8 x 12 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: in graphite at l.r.: Marcks 1925
inscription: l.c., graphite, handwritten, German, in artist's hand: Absage
inscription: l.l., graphite, handwritten, German: Marcks - Absage
inscription: l.r., graphite, handwritten: 15--

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: Lammek H125

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Association Fund
Accession Year: 1948
Object Number: BR48.111
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Subjects and Contexts

The Bauhaus

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