Karierte Welt (Checkered World)

before 1933

Imre Kinszki

Associated Names
Imre Kinszki

Artist, Hungarian, 1901 - 1945

A table covered with a white tablecloth and two chairs is positioned in front of a lattice wall, creating a pattern of shadows. The color palette is black, white, and various shades of gray. The table is centered in the image, with one chair on the left and another slightly to the right, partially tucked under the table. The lattice pattern is visible across the floor and surfaces, providing a textured backdrop.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 39.1 x 29.7 cm (15 3/8 x 11 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2004.72.5

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Kicken Gallery, Berlin); NGA purchase, 2004.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2015

  • In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015

Inscriptions

All on verso and by different unidentified hands: upper left in black ink: NO 1/ 2B(circled); upper center in black ink: Kocka's vi[illegible]/ Checkered World/ Karierte Welt; upper center stamped: foto KINSZKI Imre; upper center in red pencil: 49; upper center stamped: "TURKISTAK INOCI TARSASAGA/ FÉNYKÉPEZÖ SZAKOSZTALYA/ BUDAPEST-1940.; upper center in black ink: IMRE KINSZKI,/ BUDAPEST, XIV,/ Rónau.121.; upper right in blue pencil: 294/5; center left in black ink: No 2; center in graphite: 59 [crossed out in blue ink]; center in blue ink: IV; below center in black ink: Bromsilber-VergröBerung; below center in black ink: 31/ 199 (circled) [crossed out in blue ink]; below center in black ink: 11537/ 6"/ 13[illegible]/ 24[2 illegible letters]

Wikidata ID

Q64155269

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