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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2017.50
People
Erwin Spuler, German (Augsburg, Germany 1906 - 1964 Cagnes-sur-Mer, France)
Title
Untitled (As the Fire Fell From the Sky)
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Ohne Titel (Als das Feuer vom Himmel fiel)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1945/6
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/357487

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on white wove paper
Dimensions
29.8 × 41.9 cm (11 3/4 × 16 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., in charcoal: Spuler
  • inscription: on recto, l.r., in charcoal: Spuler

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Luise Faass Hospach, Karlsruhe, sold; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2017.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum Acquisition Fund
Accession Year
2017
Object Number
2017.50
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. 193-194, 196, cat. no. 15.3, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

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