"Everything in my path that hinders me from becoming master, I shall destroy."

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"Everything in my path that hinders me from becoming master, I shall destroy."

Alternate Title: "Ich will alles um mich her ausrotten, was mich einschränkt, daß ich nicht Herr bin."
Portfolio (orig. lang.): Die Räuber
Portfolio (translation): The Robbers

Germany, Berlin, 1922
Prints; lithographs
Photolithograph
Sheet: 25 1/2 × 19 1/2 in. (64.77 × 49.53 cm) Image: 22 3/4 × 17 in. (57.79 × 43.18 cm)
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies (M.82.288.70)
Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Kaplan, Rachel, and Erin Sullivan Maynes. Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.
  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art:  the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection:  prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.
  • Kaplan, Rachel, and Erin Sullivan Maynes. Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.
  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art:  the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection:  prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.
  • Dückers, Alexander. George Grosz: das druckgraphische Werk/Alexander Dückers. Frankfurt am Main; Berlin; Wien: Propyläen-Verlag, 1979.
  • Chipp, Herschel B. and Karin Breuer.  The Human Image in German Expressionist Graphic Art From the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation.  Berkeley: University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1981.

  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.

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  • Barron, Stephanie, and Sabine Eckmann. New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919–1933. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2015.


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Exhibition history

  • Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany Los Angeles, CA, Charles White Elementary School, October 29, 2022 - July 22, 2023