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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.49
People
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
  • 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
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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

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