1982.48: For Khlebnikov: Little Mailed Fist Germany

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1982.48

People

Anselm Kiefer, German (Donaueschingen, Germany born 1945)

Title

For Khlebnikov: Little Mailed Fist Germany

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Für Chlebnikow: Kleine Panzerfaust Deutschland; For Khlebnikov: Small "Mailed Fist" Germany

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

1980

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/294983

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gouache, acrylic, and emulsion on gelatin silver print

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

actual: 81 x 58 cm (31 7/8 x 22 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Multiples, Inc., Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1982.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Deknatel Purchase Fund

Copyright

© Anselm Kiefer

Accession Year

1982

Object Number

1982.48

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, p. 121, fig. 120, ill. (b/w)
• [Reproduction only], "A New Canvas" [Review of Kiefer show], The Boston Globe, (Boston, MA, August 16, 2002)., repr. p. E13
• Laura Muir, Surface Tension: Works by Anselm Kiefer from the Broad Collections and the Harvard University Art Museums ("Anselm Kiefer and the Photograph"), brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), pp. 3-4, fig. 2
• Peter Nisbet, ed., Anselm Kiefer. The Heavenly Palaces: Merkabah, Harvard University Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA, New Haven and London, 2003), p. 21, fig. 2
• Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2001-2002 (Cambridge, MA, 2003), p. 44, repr.
• The J. Paul Getty Medal 2017: Mario Vargas Llosa/Anselm Kiefer, J. Paul Getty Trust (Los Angeles, CA, 2017), p. 53, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

• Modern Art for Harvard: Prints and Drawings Acquired through the Generosity of Frederick B. and Virginia H. Deknatel, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/31/1995 - 08/06/1995
• Surface Tension: Works by Anselm Kiefer from the Broad Collections and the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/06/2002 - 10/06/2002

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