Boiler House Assembly Plant Under Construction, Berlin Municipal Electricity Works, Power Plant West (Kesselhaussttutzen (Montegeanlage BEWAG, Berlin, Kraftwerk West)

Prints and Drawings

1929

Carl Grossberg
German, 1894-1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Carl Grossberg
Title: Boiler House Assembly Plant Under Construction, Berlin Municipal Electricity Works, Power Plant West (Kesselhaussttutzen (Montegeanlage BEWAG, Berlin, Kraftwerk West)
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1929
Medium: Graphite on tan wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated lower left, in graphite: “Grossberg 29”
Dimensions: 48 × 38 cm (18 15/16 × 15 in.)
Credit Line: Margaret Day Blake Fund
Reference Number: 2017.387

Franz Krause and Victor Dirksen, Carl Grossberg, sein Malschaffen 1920 bis 40, exh. cat. (Dortmund, 1942), pp. 34 (ill.) and 47, no. 35, as Berlin, Kraftwerk West im Bau.

Hannover, Germany, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Grossberg, February 13–March 18, 1934, n.p., as Berlin, Montage Kraftwerke West.
Darmstadt, Germany, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Carl Grossberg: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, und Druckgrafik, 1914–1940, May 7–June 20, 1976, pp. 47–48, cat. 72 (ill.), as Montageanlage Bewag, Berlin (Kraftwerk West); also Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum, June 29–August 8, 1976, and Städtischen Museum Leverkusen, September 10–October 24, 1976.
Wuppertal, Germany, Von der Heydt-Museum, Carl Grossberg: Retrospektive zum 100. Geburtstag, August 28–October 9, 1994, fig. 117, p. 155, cat. 140, as Berlin Bewag, Gerüste; also Kunsthalle Tübingen, October 15–November 27, 1994, Kunstahalle zu Kiel, December 11, 1994–February 12, 1995, and Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, February 20–April 17, 1995.

By descent to the artist’s wife, Tilde Grossberg, Sommerhausen, from 1940–at least 1976 [Darmstadt 1976 exh. cat.]; by descent to her daughter, Eva Grossberg; sold by Galerie Michael Hasenclever, Munich, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2017.

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