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niggenkopf-serie

catalogue number: hdv 1975.091.6
date created: 1975
classification: books, editions & portfolios
work type: photograph series, portfolio
medium: 8 colour photographs taken on September 27, 1975 (14.16 h. every 5 seconds) showing clouds in the blue sky above the the mountains around Brand (Vorarlberg); on the front of the first cardboard the title, date and signature is written; on the reverse a red stamp of the artists press; followed by eight cardboards with the colour photographs. The portfolio with flaps is bound with two textile strips
dimensions: each board 21 × 26 cm (photograph 11.5 × 18 cm)
portfolio 27 × 21 × 2.5 cm
signature and inscriptions: titled 'niggenkopf - serie', signed and dated '27-9-1975: 14.46 u. 8 × om de 5 sec.' on the front of the gray cardboard cover (black ink)
numbered on the reverse (black ink) + stamp of artists press bern (red ink)
edition: 25, numbered 1/25 - 25/25
published by artists press : bern 1975
current repository: [24/25] collection herman and susanne de vries
[25/25] collection Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
current repository number: [25/25] AS 2016/3072
collecting history:
related works:
comment:
photo/scan: studio herman de vries/l-cs
rights & reproduction: herman de vries
exhibition history
1980 'herman de vries. werken 1954-1980', Groninger Museum, Groningen
published references
exhibition catalogue herman de vries. werken 1954-1980: 1. informeel, monochroom, wit; 2. random objectivation; 3. experimenten met taal; 4. chance & change; 5. werkelijkheid als zelfstandig document, natuur; 6. postal messages / [samenstelling tentoonstelling en catalogus Frans Haks, Paul Vries] (Groninger Museum : Groningen 1980) no image repr. (catalogue number 4.19).
catalogue raisonné herman de vries. les livres et les publications : catalogue raisonné / textes de herman de vries, Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Didier Mathieu (Centre des livres d'artistes : Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche 2005) images repr. on pages 120-128, 119 (catalogue number 28).