Empire State Building

1931

Fritz Block

Associated Names
Fritz Block

Artist, German, 1889 - 1955

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Manfred Heiting, Los Angeles

  • Dimensions

    image: 22.8 × 16.9 cm (9 × 6 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 23.1 × 17.1 cm (9 1/8 × 6 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2025.100.131

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Anna Sophie Block, Los Angeles; by descent to artist's niece, Ingrid Levi-Hüneberg and Gustav Levi-Hüneberg (Fritz Block Estate Archive), Bromma, Sweden, 1986; Roland Jaeger, Hamburg; Manfred Heiting, Los Angeles, 12 May 2019; gift to NGA, 2025.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, possibly by artist, lower left in black ink: Empire State Building; bottom left: 5/15; by unknown hand, top center in graphite: 12,6; printing notes along right edge; lower right: [illegible] 20 / 5/15; bottom left stamped in black ink: FOTO DR. BLOCK

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