Collection Online as of May 28, 2022
1935
Gelatin silver print, micrograph, ferrotyped
Image: 18 x 22.6 cm (7 1/16 x 8 7/8 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.126
© 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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.
Inscriptions
Inscription Written in pencil on verso: "konstruktionsform crystal/200x"
Provenance Private collection, Germany
Thursday, May 25, 2000
(Villa Grisebach, Berlin, May 25, 2000, no. 1438, sold to David Raymond)
2000-2007
David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
2007-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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. Reproduced: p. 200, no. 167; mentioned: p. 236.
Exhibition history
Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography . The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
