Heinrich Kühn
Vier Kinder, Sonnensehen

ArtistAustrian, 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
Object Type
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.

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

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1907
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Heinrich Kühn
1898
Gum bichromate print
2004.547