Hanging Basement in Crematoria, Buchenwald Camp, Weimar, Germany

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Hanging Basement in Crematoria, Buchenwald Camp, Weimar, Germany
Image Not Available for Hanging Basement in Crematoria, Buchenwald Camp, Weimar, Germany
Artist/Maker (American, born 1942)
Date1988, printed 1992
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm) Image: 12 5/8 × 18 5/8 in. (32.1 × 47.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Rita and Martin Edelston, P1982 and P1985
Object number2025.23.4
Not on view

Additional Details

Alternate Titles Buchenwald: The walls of this cellar room are peeling and gouged, showing the kick marks of dying prisoners.
Markings Verso, throughout (watermark): "AgFa"
Signature Verso, center (pencil): "Ira Nowinski / 1992"
Inscribed Verso, center (pencil): "Hanging Basement in Crematoria / Buchenwald Camp / 1988 / Weimar, Germany"
Ira Nowinski
Date: 1988, printed 1992
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.23.2
Ira Nowinski
Date: 1988, printed 1990
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.23.3
Ira Nowinski
Date: 1988, printed 1998
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.23.5
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Jacques Lowe
Date: c. 1955
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.26
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Katsukawa Shunsen
Date: c. 1810-1820
Medium: Polychrome woodblock print
Object number: INV.997
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John French Sloan
Date: 1912
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1992.3
Photo by John Bentham.
Thomas Nast
Date: c.1870
Medium: Ink on paper
Object number: 1944.1.6a-b
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Graham Sutherland
Date: 1955
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Object number: 1987.26
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Graham Sutherland
Date: November 10, 1955
Medium: Color lithograph
Object number: 1983.117