{ "data": { "id": 122739, "accession_number": "1942.917", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "N\u00fcrenberg, 1929. Edwin Kaufman (American, 1906\u20131939). Lithograph; platemark: 16.5 x 9.2 cm (6 1/2 x 3 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Robert Hays Gries, 1942.917", "current_location": null, "title": "N\u00fcrenberg", "creation_date": "1929", "creation_date_earliest": 1929, "creation_date_latest": 1929, "artists_tags": [ "May Show", "male" ], "culture": [ "America, Ohio, Cleveland" ], "technique": "lithograph", "support_materials": [], "department": "Prints", "collection": "PR - Lithograph", "type": "Print", "measurements": "Platemark: 16.5 x 9.2 cm (6 1/2 x 3 5/8 in.)", "dimensions": { "platemark": { "height": 0.165, "height_inch": 6, "height_inch_fraction": 0.5, "width": 0.092, "width_inch": 3, "width_inch_fraction": 0.625 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": "9/12", "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [ { "inscription": "Numbered and titled, in graphite, at bottom left: 9/12 N\u00fcrenberg; signed, in graphite, at bottom right: Edwin Kaufman", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null } ], "exhibitions": { "current": [ { "id": 381826, "title": "The May Show: 12th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen", "description": "The May Show: 12th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 22-June 1, 1930).", "opening_date": "1930-04-22T05:00:00" } ], "legacy": [] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "Studio of the artist, Cleveland, OH, sold to Robert Hays Gries", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": 1 }, { "description": "Robert Hays Gries, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1942", "sortorder": 2 }, { "description": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1942-", "sortorder": 3 } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "This print won third prize in lithography at the Cleveland Museum of Art\u2019s 1930 May Show.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Although today known for its connection to World War II, Nuremburg, Germany, was attractive to artists during the 1920s due to its importance to the history of printing. Edwin Kaufman ignored the city entirely in this lithograph and instead illustrated a woman walking. Her practical attire and large baskets recall the city\u2019s past, which Kaufman may have aimed to exaggerate by removing his subject\u2019s modernized surroundings.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79640502" ], "internet_archive": [] }, "citations": [ { "citation": "Edwin Kaufman Entry Card to 1930 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.", "page_number": null, "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMS01965" } ], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.917", "images": { "annotation": null, "web": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.917/1942.917_web.jpg", "width": "656", "height": "893", "filesize": "428514", "filename": "1942.917_web.jpg" }, "print": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.917/1942.917_print.jpg", "width": "1987", "height": "2703", "filesize": "4319679", "filename": "1942.917_print.jpg" }, "full": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.917/1942.917_full.tif", "width": "1987", "height": "2703", "filesize": "16134040", "filename": "1942.917_full.tif" } }, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Gift of Robert Hays Gries", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 122739, "creators": [ { "id": 15144, "description": "Edwin Kaufman (American, 1906\u20131939)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": "Cleveland-born printmaker and painter Edwin Kaufman was an active member of the Cleveland School during the 1930s. His formal art education began at the Cleveland School of Art, where he learned watercolor and portraiture from Henry Keller. Upon graduation in 1929, he studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich and Henry de Waroquier in Paris after winning the Agnes Gund European Traveling Scholarship. In 1930 he exhibited alongside master printmaker K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Kubinyi at the Council Education Alliance in Cleveland and later published a book of etchings with Kubinyi in 1932. During the early years of the Great Depression, Kaufman participated in the Cleveland Print Makers Club, taught tooling and portraiture at the Euclid Avenue Temple, and exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art\u2019s annual May Show from 1926 to 1937 with a first prize in watercolor and intaglio in 1935. In 1933, a solo exhibition of his prints and drawings was held at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, California. That year, Kaufman also became president of the short-lived International Print Guild in New York City. In 1934, he moved to New York, and by 1936 worked for the Works Progress Administration. His work spans portraiture, city scenes from Cleveland and New York, and New England landscapes. Kaufman\u2019s career was tragically cut short by a car accident that resulted from a bridge collapse in 1939.", "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1906", "death_year": "1939", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 1 } ], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "1942-12-02T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 1929, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "1929", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-08-19 21:46:51.725000" } }