Ancient Runners Frieze (unfinished)

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2022.221
People: Hannah Höch, German (Gotha, Thuringia, Germany 1889 - 1978 Berlin, Germany)
Title: Ancient Runners Frieze (unfinished)
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Antiker Läuferfries (unvollendet)
Classification: Photographs
Work Type: photograph, photomontage
Date: 1930
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/376555

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Collage on black paper

Technique

Collage

Dimensions

17.6 × 27.5 cm (6 15/16 × 10 13/16 in.)
frame: 62.2 × 52.4 cm (24 1/2 × 20 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.r. of collage, initialled: H. H.
inscription: l.r., monogrammed on collage, in black ink:
H.H.
label: on verso:
hannah höch, fotomontaz bojovná a hravá, fotomontage-ausstellung, Brno 1934'
inscription: l.r., in graphite:
H. HÖCH 30
inscription: l.l., in graphite:
Antiker Läuferfries (unvollendet)
inscription: On mat board, in graphite: P0310008

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Hannah Höch, to Günter Bruno Fuchs (c. 1960-1977); estate of Günter Bruno Fuchs, sold, through [Auktionshaus Prinz-Dunst, Berlin, October 2003], to; [Kicken, Berlin], sold; to [Barry Friedman, New York], sold; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2022.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Daimler Curatorship of the Busch-Reisinger Museum Fund
Accession Year: 2022
Object Number: 2022.221
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Hannah Höch, exh. cat., Whitechapel Gallery and Prestel Verlag (Munich, London, and New York, 2022), p. 132, 243, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Hannah Höch, Whitechapel Gallery, 01/15/2014 - 03/23/2014
32Q: 1440 Secessionism: Munich, Vienna, Berlin (Expressionism), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/10/2022 - 03/13/2023
Original Bauhaus, Berlinische Galerie, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, 09/06/2019 - 01/27/2020

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2022.221: Ancient Runners Frieze (unfinished)