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SeriesFamily-held objects and volumes
English translation
Halberstadt, 1926. [Artist’s signature not securely legible in the full view.]
English of the legible text, prepared for the Reichenbach Family Archive.
- Archive reference
- RB-PHO-0211
- Date
- 1926
- Medium
- Original painting; exact medium and support not yet examined
- Digital image
- 1600 × 2133 pixels
- Evidence status
- Documented family-held original painting by Walter Gemm; acquisition history open
- Uncertainty
- The work's exact medium and support have not been examined outside the frame. No receipt, letter or dated family record currently establishes when or where it entered the family.
- Source and provenance
- Family-held original painting; artist and date read from the separately photographed signature and inscription.
- Custody history
- Preserved by the Reichenbach family. The earlier acquisition and migration history has not yet been documented.
- Credit
- Reichenbach Family Archive
- Rights
- Family-held original artwork displayed for historical identification, education and commentary. Copyright in the underlying artwork is not claimed by the Reichenbach Family Archive; no independent reuse rights are granted.
- Image treatment
- Conventional full-frame web derivative from the family object photograph; frame and setting retained; no generative alteration.
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How to cite this object
Chicago-style suggested citation
Reichenbach Family Archive. “Walter Gemm painted Halberstadt’s marketplace in 1926.” 1926. RB-PHO-0211. https://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/rb-pho-0211.
Permanent URLhttps://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/rb-pho-0211