Ringl + Pit
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

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Artist Ringl + Pit (Berlin, active 1930s)Berlin, active 1930s

Artist Grete Stern (Argentinean, born Germany, 1904–1999)Argentinean, born Germany, 1904–1999

Artist Ellen Auerbach (German, 1906–2004)German, 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, The Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2002.2360

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Manfred Heiting Collection of Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

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
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