Nationality
American
Preview
Date of Work
1978
Medium
Postcard
Height
4"
Width
6"
Collection/Provenance
Art & Design Study Collection, James Smith Pierce Collection
Status
Stored: FF_012_B
Location
UND Art Collections Repository
Artist Bio
Michael Langenstein is currently based out of New York City, NY. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania from 1971 to 1974 where he obtained his MFA. Langenstein is best known for his postcards that combine surrealism with world famous landmarks and icons such as the Statue of Liberty, the pyramids and the Twin Towers. Michael Langenstein has work in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and many others.
Additional Information
Artists' Postcards Series II
Photographs used from NASA and J.G. Ross. Postcard is a holographic depiction of the twin towers in front of the pyramids and on the moon.
UND Art Collections owns 4 copies of this postcard.
Postcard Reverse
Text in upper left hand corner of postcard:
Michael Langenstein
Two in Time (Printed in various different languages below)
Postage square on upper right hand corner of postcard:
15 cent Postage
Text in top center of postcard:
Artists' Postcards Logo
Text in bottom left of postcard:
© Artists' Postcards 1978, N.Y.C.
Photos: Moonscape, NASA: Pyramids, J.G. Ross
Exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, Fall 1978
Condition
Very good