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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2016.124
People
Otto Steinert, German (Saarbrücken, Germany 1915 - 1978 Essen, Germany)
Title
Still Life with Fish
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Stilleben mit Fisch
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1955
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/356308

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Multiple exposure gelatin silver print, ferrotyped
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
39.8 × 29.2 cm (15 11/16 × 11 1/2 in.)
mount: 43.5 × 33 cm (17 1/8 × 13 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: On recto, in ball point pen: Otto Steinert 1955; on verso, in blue crayon Otto Steinert, 2/XII/55
  • (not assigned): On verso, in blue crayon: Otto Steinert, 2/XII/55. Saarbrücken
  • (not assigned): On verso, in graphite: Stilleben mit Fisch
  • (not assigned): On verso, in graphite, by a modern hand: OSK#092 (4.1)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Kicken Berlin], sold; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2016.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Antonia Paepcke DuBrul Fund
Copyright
© Marlis Steinert, Thônex
Accession Year
2016
Object Number
2016.124
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Lynette Roth, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 402-404, 413 (detail), cat. no. 59.1, ill. (b/w)

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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