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        "accession_number": "2002.7",
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        "tombstone": "Berlin Power Plant under Construction, 1930. Carl Grossberg (German, 1894\u20131940). Graphite; framing lines in graphite; sheet: 37.5 x 51.9 cm (14 3/4 x 20 7/16 in.); image: 34.4 x 47.8 cm (13 9/16 x 18 13/16 in.); secondary support: 47.6 x 63.3 cm (18 3/4 x 24 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anne Elizabeth Wilson Memorial Fund, 2002.7",
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        "title": "Berlin Power Plant under Construction",
        "creation_date": "1930",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1930,
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        "artists_tags": [
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            "Germany, 20th century"
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        "technique": "graphite; framing lines in graphite",
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                "description": "yellow-beige wove paper tipped on to cream(3) wove paper",
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        "department": "Drawings",
        "collection": "DR - German",
        "type": "Drawing",
        "measurements": "Sheet: 37.5 x 51.9 cm (14 3/4 x 20 7/16 in.); Image: 34.4 x 47.8 cm (13 9/16 x 18 13/16 in.); Secondary Support: 47.6 x 63.3 cm (18 3/4 x 24 15/16 in.)",
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            "sheet": {
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        "inscriptions": [
            {
                "inscription": "signed, lower right, in graphite: cgrossberg / 1930 ; verso, lower right, in red ink: Z 0 0 7 [within purple stamp of four boxes] ; on secondary support, lower left, in graphite: Z / 304 Berlin ; lower left, in graphite: [B]erlin, Kraftwerk West (Berlag) 1930. [partially cut off] ; lower right, in graphite: 15 [inscribed in a circle] ; lower right, in graphite: 45.",
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            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "Kunst und Technik in des 20er Jahren Neue Sachlichkeit und Gegenst\u00e4ndlicher Konstruktivismus (St\u00e4dtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 1980), p. 180, no. 55, repr.",
                    "opening_date": "1980-01-01T00:00:00"
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                {
                    "description": "Carl Grossberg Gem\u00e4lde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Druckgrafik, 1914-1940 (Hessischen Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, 1976 and tour), p. 48, no. 73.",
                    "opening_date": "1914-01-01T00:00:00"
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        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Private collection (see Kunst und Technik in des 20er Jahren Neue Sachlichkeit und Gegenst\u00e4ndlicher Konstruktivismus (St\u00e4dtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 1980), p. 180, no. 55, repr.). Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York",
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        "description": "Carl Grossberg is associated with the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement in Germany, which developed during the 1920s and is best known through the work of Max Beckmann (1884-1950), Otto Dix (1891-1969), and George Grosz (1893-1959). During this period, many artists sought an alternative to the extreme colors and non-naturalistic distortions of Expressionism. Instead, a cool, more reserved palette and a smooth linearity characterize the techniques these artists favored.\r\n\r\nGrossberg focused almost exclusively on the urban landscape and the machine. The power plant under construction in this sheet typifies the kind of industrial architecture that interested him. His imagery strongly parallels the contemporary American movement known as Precisionism, particularly the work of Charles Sheeler (1883-1965). Like Sheeler-whose important painting, Church Street El, can be seen in Gallery 239-Grossberg presented the mechanical world as clean, still, and airless.\r\n",
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                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-2002.7-berlin-power-plant-u"
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        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2002.7",
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        "creditline": "Anne Elizabeth Wilson Memorial Fund",
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                "description": "Carl Grossberg (German, 1894\u20131940)",
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                "birth_year": "1894",
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "2002-03-04T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1930,
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        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
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        "alternate_titles": [
            "Berlin, Kraftwerk West (Bewag)"
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:52:24.176000"
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