Heinrich Kühn
Vier Kinder, Sonnensehen

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Artist Heinrich Kühn (Austrian, 1866–1944)Austrian, 1866–1944

CultureAustrian

Titles

Vier Kinder, Sonnensehen
Four Children, Looking at the Sun

Date1913

MediumGum bichromate over platinum print

DimensionsImage: 11 5/8 × 9 3/16 in. (29.5 × 23.3 cm)
Sheet: 11 3/4 × 9 5/16 in. (29.9 × 23.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Manfred Heiting, the Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2004.545

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Manfred Heiting Collection of Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

ProvenanceEx-collection Lotte Schönitzer-Kuehn; Galerie Rudolf Kicken, Cologne.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Galerie Rudolf Kicken GmbH on 12/11/78.
Exhibition History"Heinrich Kuhn: The Perfect Photograph," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 6–May 30, 2011.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Marked in pencil, verso, bottom: "RK727281-2OTOH4 MHC 1389"
Marked in pencil, verso, top half of sheet: "Kwyy (?) 5º / 4º A13 / illegible marks"
Horizontal and vertical pencil lines marking roughly half the sheet
Partial circle in pencil at top of sheet, verso

See TMS image for picture of inscriptions.

There is no evident signature.

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