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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.23.4
People
John Heartfield, German (Berlin, Germany 1891 - 1968 Berlin, Germany)
Title
His Majesty Adolf
Other Titles
Original Language Title: S. M. Adolf
Series/Book Title: Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung 11, no. 34, 1932
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1932
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/212508

Location

Location
Level 1, Room 1520, Modern and Contemporary Art, Art in Germany Between the Wars
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Rotogravure printed on cream wove paper
Technique
Photogravure
Dimensions
sheet: 34.3 x 22.2 cm (13 1/2 x 8 3/4 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Evans 6/32

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, American Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum Fund
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.23.4
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), pp. 111-112, ill.
  • 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. 86

Exhibition History

  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions from the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Central and Northern Art and Design from 1880 to the Present, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 04/19/2000 - 07/09/2000
  • HAA 1 Survey Course (S421): Landmarks of World Art and Architecture [Spring 2009], Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 02/12/2009 - 05/10/2009
  • HAA 1 Survey Course (S421): Landmarks of World Art and Architecture (Spring 2010), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 02/05/2010 - 05/09/2010
  • 32Q: 1520 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Interwar and Bauhaus), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/21/2025 - 10/01/2025

Verification Level

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