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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR50.616
People
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German (Aschaffenburg am Main, Germany 1880 - 1938 Davos, Switzerland)
Title
Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Berlin Street Scene
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1914
Period
Modern
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304346

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pastel with black chalk on dark cream laid paper, laid down to a thin wood pulp board (mounted overall)
Dimensions
sheet: 66.7 x 50.2 cm (26 1/4 x 19 3/4 in.)
mount: 75.4 x 59.4 cm (29 11/16 x 23 3/8 in.)
frame: 83.7 x 68.4 x 3.1 cm (32 15/16 x 26 15/16 x 1 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: E. L. Kirchner

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Association Fund
Accession Year
1950
Object Number
BR50.616
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), p. 126, repr.
  • Peter Nisbet and Emilie Norris, Busch-Reisinger Museum: History and Holdings, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1991), p. 63, ill.
  • James Cuno, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Ivan Gaskell, and William W. Robinson, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), pp. 338-339, repr. color
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Timothy O. Benson, Expressionist utopias : paradise, metropolis, architectural fantasy, exh. cat., University of California Press (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA and London, England, 2002), no. 18
  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 155

Exhibition History

  • 20th-Century Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/07/1981 - 11/11/1981
  • From the Realists to the Expressionists: Works on Paper by Central European Artists from 1870 to 1918, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/14/1983 - 04/29/1983
  • Street Scenes by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 07/29/2008 - 11/10/2008
  • 32Q: 1500 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Expressionism-Interwar), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/05/2016 - 08/10/2016

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