About the Artwork
Indian Chief in Battle Dress
ca. 1944
Hans Jaenisch
1907 - 1989
German
Unknown
Watercolor and pen and black ink with additions of white gouache on wove paper
Sheet: 14 5/8 × 9 5/8 inches (37.1 × 24.4 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Szluk
73.241
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Markings
Signed, in pen and black ink, lower left edge: Jae
Inscribed, in ink, upper left: 30/5 Indianeer im Kriegsschmuck | im Camp Inscribed, in pencil, upper right: für meinen Freund | Pit Szluk | 9-9-49
Provenance
Hans Jaenisch
Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Szluk (Phoenix, Arizona, USA)
1973-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Uhr, Horst. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, p. 103, no. 52 (ill.).
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Hans Jaenisch, Indian Chief in Battle Dress, ca. 1944, watercolor and pen and black ink with additions of white gouache on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Szluk, 73.241.
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