Tightrope Walker (Seiltanzer)

c. 1925 - 1930

Paul Gangolf

Artist, German, German, 1879 - 1936

unidentified

Printer

unidentified

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph with scraping and transparent watercolor on gray wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 48.2 x 37.5 cm (19 x 14 3/4 in.) [irregular]
    plate: 27.5 x 23 cm (10 13/16 x 9 1/16 in.) [irregular]

  • Accession

    2012.92.764

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rathenau 1964, no. 18

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, December 7-8, 1984, lot 403); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740); Gift to NGA, 2012

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2024

  • The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.

Bibliography

1964

  • Rathenau, Ernest. Im Memoriam Paul Gangolf. Berlin: Euphorin Verlag, 1964, no. 18.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right, in graphite; by later hand, verso lower left, in graphite: M41 575 / 605 / 403

Markings

stamp, verso lower center, in black ink: RCK

Wikidata ID

Q76560403

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