Masse

1936

not on display

Otto Baumberger1889 Altstetten, Zürich – 1961 Weiningen

The painting depicts unemployed people during the Geneva riots in 1932.In: Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (ed.), edited by Christian Klemm, Franziska Lentzsch, Gian Casper Bott et al., Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007.

Also known as

Mass

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

image: 117.5 x 100 cm

Inventory number

1949/0010

Credit line

Kunsthaus Zürich, loan of the Canton of Zurich, 1949

Signature

inscr. b. l.: OB / 1936

Inscriptions

Accession year

1949

Provenance

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About the provenance

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Literature (general)

- Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 420.

Object type

painting

Classification

D 1[1] art 20th century CHE

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