{"data":{"id":"2964","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":2964,"topgoose_id":26538,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":2964,"title":"Die Fahne hoch!","display_artist_text":"Frank Stella","display_date":"1959","accession_number":"75.22","dimensions":"Overall: 121 5/8 × 72 13/16 in. (308.9 × 184.9 cm)","medium":"Enamel on canvas","department":"collection","classification":"Paintings","credit_line":"Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene M. Schwartz and purchase with funds from the John I. H. Baur Purchase Fund, the Charles and Anita Blatt Fund, Peter M. Brant, B. H. Friedman, the Gilman Foundation, Inc., Susan Morse Hilles, The Lauder Foundation, Frances and Sydney Lewis, the Albert A. List Fund, Philip Morris Incorporated, Sandra Payson, Mr. and Mrs. Albrecht Saalfield, Mrs. Percy Uris, Warner Communications Inc., and the National Endowment for the Arts","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":null,"description":"\u003cp\u003eFrank Stella, \u003cem\u003eDie Fahne hoch!\u003c/em\u003e, 1959. Enamel on canvas, overall: 121 5/8 × 72 13/16 in. (308.9 × 184.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene M. Schwartz and purchase with funds from the John I. H. Baur Purchase Fund, the Charles and Anita Blatt Fund, Peter M. Brant, B. H. Friedman, the Gilman Foundation, Inc., Susan Morse Hilles, The Lauder Foundation, Frances and Sydney Lewis, the Albert A. List Fund, Philip Morris Incorporated, Sandra Payson, Mr. and Mrs. Albrecht Saalfield, Mrs. Percy Uris, Warner Communications Inc., and the National Endowment for the Arts 75.22. © Frank Stella/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDie Fahne hoch! \u003c/i\u003ebelongs to a group of twenty-four black paintings that brought the young Frank Stella instant art world notoriety. What appear at first to be white lines are actually bare, narrow spaces of unprimed canvas between the standardized black bands that the artist applied with a housepainter’s brush. Spanning a deep stretcher, the painting seems to project off the wall, asserting its presence, or what Stella called its “objectness.” There was nothing to this work, the artist declared, beyond the observable\u003ca name=\"OLE_LINK2\"\u003e—\u003c/a\u003eas he put it in a now-famous maxim, “what you see is what you see.” While Stella insisted on the non-referentiality of his paintings, the German title \u003ci\u003eDie Fahne hoch!\u003c/i\u003e, which translates as “hoist the flag,” is taken from the “Horst Wessel Song,” the Nazi Party’s marching anthem. Indeed the painting’s title, cruciform configuration, and flaglike proportions call to mind not only Nazi banners but the darkness and annihilation of the Holocaust. The phrase may also refer to raising the banner of a new aesthetic, one that marked a shift away from Abstract Expressionism and anticipated the geometry and rigor of Minimalism.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Dark panel with faint concentric square lines forming a cross pattern across the surface.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2020-07-25T01:30:13.200-04:00","updated_at":"2026-03-31T06:00:11.023-04:00","images":[{"id":94792,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/2964/75_22_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"1280","type":"artist"}]}}}}