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An image of Reaching the stars by Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack

Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack

(Germany, Australia 11 Jul 1893–07 Jan 1965)

Title
Reaching the stars
Place of origin
Weimar → Germany
Year
1922
Media category
Print
Materials used
colour lithograph, black, dark blue, light blue, fawn and yellow on thin cream mulberry paper
Edition
Edition of 6
Dimensions

42.3 x 31.6cm image; 58.1 x 42.4cm sheet (irreg.)

Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l. below image, pencil "L.H. Mack 1922".
Credit
Purchased 1961
Accession number
DA13.1961
Copyright
© Estate of Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (4)

Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1961 Acquisitions 1961, Sydney, 1961, 34. cat.no. 57

Nicholas Draffin, Two masters of the Weimar Bauhaus: Lyonel Feininger, Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack 1974, 'Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack', pg. 39-44, Domain, 1974, 2 (colour illus.), , 40, 55 (illus.). cat.no. 55

Nicholas Draffin, Prints in Germany 1880-1940 1989, Domain, 1989, 4.

Jacqueline Strecker (Editor), The Mad Square: Modernity in German Art 1910-37 2011, 2011.

Exhibition history (6)

Purchases and Acquisitions for 1961, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Apr 1962–25 May 1962

Two masters of the Weimar Bauhaus: Lyonel Feininger, Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack:

The edge of the world, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 05 Jul 1985–25 Aug 1985

Prints in Germany 1880-1940, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 Oct 1989–07 Jan 1990

Bauhaus and Expressionism: German prints and drawings from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, 04 Mar 2005–15 May 2005

Modern Times: