id:			165116
accession number:	2007.126
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.126
updated:		2022-01-04 17:39:40.953000

The Spiral, 1935. Carl Strüwe (German, 1898-1988). Gelatin silver print, micrograph, ferrotyped; image: 18 x 22.6 cm (7 1/16 x 8 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2007.126 © 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

title:				The Spiral
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creation date:			1935
creation date earliest:		1935
creation date latest:		1935
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
copyright:			© 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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culture:	Germany, 20th century
technique:	gelatin silver print, micrograph, ferrotyped
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - German 20th Century
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Carl Strüwe (German, 1898-1988)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 18 x 22.6 cm (7 1/16 x 8 7/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "konstruktionsform crystal/200x"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography
	opening date:   2014-10-19T00:00:00
	<i>Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Private collection, Germany
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	(Villa Grisebach, Berlin, May 25, 2000, no. 1438, sold to David Raymond)
	date: Thursday, May 25, 2000
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	David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
	date: 2000-2007
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2007-
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wall description: 
An interest in botanical forms led Strüwe, an artist and graphic designer, to begin making photomicrographs—photographs taken through a microscope. The elegant spiral is the highly magnified proboscis of a butterfly.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 200, no. 167; mentioned: p. 236.
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