Burning House, 1918

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Medium

woodcut on Japanese tissue paper

Dimensions

plate: 25.9 × 20.1 cm (10 3/16 × 7 15/16 in.)

sheet: 33.6 × 25.2 cm (13 1/4 × 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Hofmann 1994, no. 12 (1918), State only

Accession Number

2012.92.35

Artists / Makers

Maria Uhden (artist) German, 1892 - 1918

Image Use

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Inscription

below image, at left, in graphite: N. 16; below image, at right, in graphite: Maria Uhden / sig: Uhrimpf (?); at bottom left, by later hand, in graphite: 456

Provenance

Heinrich Neuerberg [b. 1883], Cologne (Lugt 1344a). (Ketterer Kunst, Hamburg, March 31, 2001, lot 627); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4739); Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Ketterer Kunst
Neuerburg, Heinrich

Bibliography

1994: Hofmann, Karl-Ludwig, Präger, Christmut. Maria Uhden 1892-1918 : Briefe, Zeugnisse und Verzeichnis der nachgelassenen Werke. Berlin : Brinkmann & Bose, 1994: no. 12 (1918), only