Relief of Queen Louise, Berlin
1886, printed 1895/1896
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 11.5 × 16.6 cm (4 1/2 × 6 9/16 in.)
page size: 27 × 34.8 cm (10 5/8 × 13 11/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.29
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Stieglitz Estate Number
70A
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
30
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2002
Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 30.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, upper right, in graphite: Relief "Queen Louise" (Berlin) / 1886
Wikidata ID
Q64037688
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
When Stieglitz first entered the Technische Hochschule, Berlin, in the winter semester, 1882, he lived with Erdmann Encke, a sculptor and amateur photographer who made this monument of Queen Louise in the Tiergarten, Berlin. His brother, Fedor, had lived with the Stieglitz family in New York in 1877.
In March 1894, Stieglitz was awarded a “certificate” for this photograph in The Amateur Photographer’s “Monthly Lantern Slide Competition—No. 58—Copies of Pictures, Engravings, Statuary, Etc.”