Ringl + Pit
Das Ei des Kolombus

Das Ei des Kolombus

© Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Ellen-Auerbach-Archiv./ VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © Estate of Grete Stern courtesy Galería Jorge Mara – La Ruche, Buenos Aires; © 1930 Ringl + Pit, courtesy Robert Mann Gallery

Das Ei des Kolombus
Das Ei des Kolombus
ArtistBerlin, active 1930s
ArtistArgentinean, born Germany, 1904–1999
ArtistGerman, 1906–2004
CultureGerman
Titles
  • Das Ei des Kolombus
Date1930
PlaceBerlin, Germany
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage/Sheet: 5 1/2 × 4 1/8 in. (13.9 × 10.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.2360
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceArtist, Sander Gallery, New York.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Christie's New York [n.d.]
Exhibition History"Exposition Internationale de la Photographie", Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1932.

"Ringl + Pitt - Grete Stern, Ellen Auerbach", Museum Folkwang, Essen, 1993.

"Defining Eye", The Saint Louis Art Museum, 1997; "La Natura della Naturamorta - da Fox Talb
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
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