2021.49: Firebird
Photographs
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2021.49
- People
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Marta Hoepffner, German (Pirmasens, Germany 1912 - 2000 Lindenberg im Allgäu, Germany)
- Title
- Firebird
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Feuervogel
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1940
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/371360
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print (photogram)
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 16.5 × 12.1 cm (6 1/2 × 4 3/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: On verso, in graphite: Fotogramm / "Feuervogel" / 30x24 / bitte[illeg.]
- inscription: On verso, in graphite: "Feuervogel" / 1940 / Fotogramm
- label: On verso: Marta Hoepffner / 7993 Kressbronn/Bodensee / Eichendorffweg 56/58 / Tel.: 07543/86 70'
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Van Ham Kunstauktionen, Cologne, Germany], sold October 30, 2003. [Grisebach, Berlin, Germany], sold November 29, 2017. Private Collection, sold; through [Kicken Galerie, Berlin], to; the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2021.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Timotheus R. Pohl Acquisition Fund and Antonia Paepcke DuBrul Fund
- Copyright
- © Estate of Marta Hoepffner
- Accession Year
- 2021
- Object Number
- 2021.49
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Emilio Bertonati, Das Experimentelle Photo in Deutschland 1918-1940, Galleria del Levante (Munich, 1978), p. 100, ill. (b/w)
Exhibition History
Verification Level
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