Untitled

1960

Friedrich Meckseper

Associated Names
Friedrich Meckseper

Artist, German, German, 1936 - 2019

There are two oblong shapes resembling cylindrical forms, surrounded by intersecting thin lines and smudged textures. The lines and textures create a fragmented landscape or industrial objects, such as silos or barrels. The arrangement of lines and shading provides depth and structure, while the abstract nature leaves room for diverse interpretations.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, soft-ground etching and open-bite on heavy wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 11.6 × 15.6 cm (4 9/16 × 6 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 26.2 × 39.1 cm (10 5/16 × 15 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.364

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schmucking 1975, no. 37, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(J. Pocker & Son, Inc., New York); Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased April 13, 1972; Christmas gift to his wife, Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1975

  • Schmücking, Rolf. Meckseper: Werkverzeichnis der Radierungen, 1956-1975. Braunschweig: Galerie Schmücking, 1975: no. 37, only

Inscriptions

signed, dated and numbered below image, in graphite: 4/20 F. Meckseper 60; at the bottom left of the sheet, in graphite, by later hand: MECKSEPER, FRIEDRICH UNTITLED 1960; on verso, in graphite, by various later hands: 17; AN 1123a; R-

Wikidata ID

Q76556736

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