1991.16.1: Skriptur, from the book "Lightgraphics, Monoscriptures"
PhotographsThe photograph shows a black center form overlaid with bright white strokes that crisscross and rise diagonally across the black form. The black form begins at the bottom with thin lines that rise up and thicken to a solid V-shape before separating into three line of different thickness, the thickest line on the right crosses to the left before rising slightly and curving back on itself. A line in black rises from the bottom and branches to the left, separates into three thin lines that rise to the top edge. The back ground is gray with a mottled white band that surrounds the black center form from the bottom right edge, up the left side and across the top.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1991.16.1
- People
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Chargesheimer, German (Cologne, Germany 1924 - 1971 Cologne, Germany)
- Title
- Skriptur, from the book "Lightgraphics, Monoscriptures"
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1961
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/53875
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- sheet: 38.1 x 28.1 cm (15 x 11 1/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: in black ink at l.r.: Ch 1961
- inscription: on verso at l.c., blue ballpoint ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: Chargesheimer
- inscription: on verso at l.l., blue ballpoint ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: 1.
- inscription: on verso at c.l., blue ballpoint ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: Skriptur
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of The Cultural Council in the Federation of German Industry
- Accession Year
- 1991
- Object Number
- 1991.16.1
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- 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. 63
Exhibition History
- 32Q: 1110 , Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/07/2015 - 04/06/2016
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