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Label Text Genzken has worked in many media throughout her career. Durchgangis part of a series of cast concrete sculptures that draws inspiration from the Modernist architecture of Berlin in the 1960s and 1970s. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, holds a similar work from the series. The Art Center has extraordinary holdings of German contemporary art, and this work adds to these holdings in an important fashion. Source: News, Apr May Jun 2015
DimensionsOverall: 96 7/8 × 47 1/4 × 27 9/16 in. (246 × 120 × 70 cm)
Accession Number 2015.2
Classificationssculpture
Signed1988 isa Genzken (underside, black ink)
Inscriptions"Durchgang" (underside, black ink)
ProvenanceArtist. (Neugerriemschneider Gallery, Berlin); John & Mary Pappajohn [purchased from the previous, 2006]; Des Moines Art Center [gift of the previous, 2015]

Images (3)

Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Durchgang
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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Photo Credit: Rick Lozier, Des Moines
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Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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