Front / Recto

  • Title Gustav Stresemann and Count Zech, Evening Conversation in The Hague (Gustav Stresemann und Graf Zech, Abendgespräch in Den Haag)
  • Negative Date August 1929
  • Print Date 1929–39
  • Medium Gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions Image 9 13/16 × 11 3/4" (24.9 × 29.9 cm)
    Mount 9 15/16 × 11 15/16" (25.3 × 30.3 cm)
  • Place Taken The Hague
  • Credit Line Thomas Walther Collection. Abbott-Levy Collection funds, by exchange
  • MoMA Accession Number 1776.2001

Back / Verso

  • Mount Type Mount (original)
  • Marks and Inscriptions

    Inscribed in blue ink on mount verso, top left: Titelblatt/der Berliner Illustrierten/25 august 1929. Inscribed in blue ink on mount verso, top center: Reichskanzler/Aussenminister/1926 Friedensnobelpreis/verdient um Deutschlands aufnahme/im Völkerband [1]. Inscribed in black ink on mount verso, center: Gustav Stresemann–Graf Zech/abendgesprach in den Haag/1929/Nettel 6 x 9/orig. contemp. print/Felix H. Man. Stamped in black ink on mount verso, center left: COPYRIGHT/FELIX H. MAN. Inscribed in pencil on mount verso, bottom center: vintage/Kodak Royal. Stamped in red ink on mount verso, bottom right: FM [with circular outline].

    [1] "Reichs Chancellor Minister of Foreign Affairs 1926 Nobel Peace Prize awarded for Germany's admission to the League of Nations."
  • Provenance The artist; by inheritance to the artist’s wife, Lieselotte Man, Lugano, Switzerland, 1985 [1]; to Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago, 1985 [2]; purchased by Thomas Walther, December 1, 1998 [3]; purchased by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001.
    [1] MacGill/Walther 2001(3), p. 14; and Matthew Ortiz (Edwynn Houk Gallery), e-mail to Maria Morris Hambourg, April 30, 2014.
    [2] MacGill/Walther 2001(3), p. 14; Ortiz, e-mail to Hambourg; and Edwynn Houk, conversation with Simon Bieling, New York, March 30, 2005.
    [3] Edwynn Houk Gallery invoice no. HG 609/98-EH, December 1, 1998.

Surface

  • Surface Sheen Semireflective
  • Techniques Mount
    Retouching (additive)
    Retouching (reductive)
  • PTM
    Detail view of the recto of the artwork made using reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) software, which exaggerates subtle surface details and renders the features of the artwork plainly visible. Department of Conservation, MoMA
  • Micro-raking
    Raking-light close-up image, as shot. Area of detail is 6.7 x 6.7 mm. Department of Conservation, MoMA
    Raking-light close-up image, processed. Processing included removal of color, equalization of the histogram, and sharpening, all designed to enhance visual comparison. Department of Conservation, MoMA

Paper Material

  • Format Metric
  • UV Fluorescence Recto negative
    Verso no data
  • Fiber Analysis No fiber data available
  • Material Techniques Developing-out paper
    Baryta-less paper
  • XRF

    This work was determined to be a gelatin silver print print via X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry.

    The following elements have been positively identified in the work, through XRF readings taken from its recto and verso (or from the mount, where the verso was not accessible):

    • Recto: Al, Si, P, S, Cl, K, Ca, Cr, Fe, Cu, Zn, Rb, Sr, Ag, Ba, Pb
    • Mount: Al, Si, S, K, Ca, Fe, Cu, Zn, Rb, Sr, Ba, Pb

    The graphs below show XRF spectra for three areas on the print: two of the recto—from areas of maximum and minimum image density (Dmax and Dmin)—and one of the verso or mount. The background spectrum represents the contribution of the XRF instrument itself. The first graph shows elements identified through the presence of their characteristic peaks in the lower energy range (0 to 8 keV). The second graph shows elements identified through the presence of their characteristic peaks in the higher energy range (8 to 40 keV).

    Areas examined: Recto (Dmax: black; Dmin: green), Verso or Mount (blue), Background (red)
    Elements identified: Al, Si, P, S, Cl, K, Ca, Cr, Ag, Ba
    Areas examined: Recto (Dmax: black; Dmin: green), Verso or Mount (blue), Background (red)
    Elements identified: Fe, Cu, Zn, Rb, Sr, Ag, Pb

In Context

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Felix Man. Gustav Stresemann and Count Zech, Evening Conversation in The Hague (Gustav Stresemann und Graf Zech, Abendgespräch in Den Haag). Reproduced on the cover of Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung 38, no. 34 (August 25, 1929).

Historical Publications

  • Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung 38, no. 34 (August 25, 1929): cover (as Abendgespräch im Haag. Reichsaußenminister Dr. Stresemann, der Führer der deutschen Delegation auf der Haager Konferenz, beim deutschen gesandten Grafen Zech).

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