Untitled

Photography and Media

1928/29

Umbo (Otto Umbehr)
German, 1902–1980

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Umbo (Otto Umbehr)
Title: Untitled
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.: Made 1928–1929
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Signed recto, on image, lower right, in white: "Umbo"; verso unchecked
Dimensions: Image/paper: 28.2 × 22.8 cm (11 1/8 × 9 in.); Mount: 40.7 × 30.5 cm (16 1/16 × 12 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Julien Levy Collection, Gift of Jean Levy and the Estate of Julien Levy
Reference Number: 1988.157.88
Copyright: © 2018 Phyllis Umbehr/Galerie Kicken Berlin/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Travis, David. 1976. “Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection: Starting with Atget.” Exh. cat. p. 17, cat. 132.
Rosenblum, Naomi. 1984. “A World History of Photography.” Abbeville Press. p. 433.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection: Starting with Atget,” December 11, 1976–February 20, 1977; traveled to the International Center of Photography, New York, April 21-May 29, 1977; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, November 4-December 18 1977; Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 13-Ferbruary 26, 1978; Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois, March 16-April 30, 1978; and Cincinnati Art Museum, November 17-December 24, 1978. (David Travis)
Berlin, Germany, Berlinsche Galerie, “Station Der Moderne,” September 25, 1988–January 6, 1989.
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Modern Series: Shatter Rupture Break,” February 15-May 3, 2015.

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