City

1920

Richard Gessner

Artist, German, 1894 - 1989

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 14.6 × 9.8 cm (5 3/4 × 3 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 40.9 × 31.6 cm (16 1/8 × 12 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.224


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased June 7, 1990; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lettered in image, at bottom right: R. Gessner (...); signed and numbered below image, in black ball-point pen: 3/20 Richard Gessner; on verso, in black ball-point pen: Platte wurde im / Weltkrieg zamt(...)

Wikidata ID

Q76556396


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