The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 26, 2024

The Spiral

The Spiral

1935
(German, 1898–1988)
Germany, 20th century
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
Location: not on view

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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
  • {{cite web|title=The Spiral|url=false|author=Carl Strüwe|year=1935|access-date=26 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2007.126