Echinopsis Blüte (Echinopsis Blossom)
c. 1927
Artist, German, 1897 - 1966

Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Brenda and Robert Edelson Collection)
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Dimensions
image: 19.1 × 16.9 cm (7 1/2 × 6 5/8 in.)
sheet: 19.3 × 17.1 cm (7 5/8 × 6 3/4 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.4654
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Brenda and Robert Edelson, Baltimore, MD; purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1998; acquired by NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2003
Both Sides of the Street: Celebrating the Corcoran's Photography Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, April 12 – August 25, 2003
2007
Modernism: Designing a New World 1914–1939, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 17 – July 29, 2007
Bibliography
2007
Brookman, Philip, Paul Greenhalgh, and Sarah Newman. Essential Modernism. London/Washington, DC, 2007: 45.
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, top left corner in graphite: 829; top center stamped in black ink inside rectangle: Phot.A.Renger-Patzsch / BAD-HARZBURG; upper right stamped in black ink: Jede Reproduktion / verboten; upper left in graphite: Echinopsis blüte.; bottom center: Ex Libris; bottom right: 80.4.4.18
Wikidata ID
Q64032489