Street at Night (Nächtliche Straße)

Prints and Drawings

1921

Albert Birkle
German, 1900–1986

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Albert Birkle
Title: Street at Night (Nächtliche Straße)
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.: 1921
Medium: Charcoal on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and inscribed lower edge, in graphite: “Nächtliche Strasse Albert Birkle”
Dimensions: 47 × 61 cm (18 9/16 × 24 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Sara R. Shorey Endowed Acquisition and Prints and Drawings Purchase funds
Reference Number: 2018.259

Berlin, Galerie Bodo Niemann, Novembergruppe, Dec. 4, 1993–Feb. 5, 1994, cat. 18, pp. 107 (color ill.) and 131.

Given by the artist to the Neue Münchner Galerie, 1978; possibly sold to Galerie Bodo Niemann, 1985 or 1986. Sold, Grisebach GmbH, Berlin, June 1, 2018, lot 477, to the Art Institute of Chicago.

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